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Latin America and the Caribbean © From archaeological pre-Hispanic sites, exceptionally well preserved historical centres, breath-taking natural sites with exquisite, biodiverse landscapes, the Region’s World Heritage serves as a basis for further strengthening sustainable development and the role of local communities which is vital for heritage protection and ...
Pages Score 7.3303547 Date 10/2024
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Arab States The Arab States region consists of 19 States Parties that have ratified the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, with a total of 88 properties currently inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Arab States region is rich in its cultural and natural heritage, reflecting a diversity of values and features, ...
Pages Score 6.906774 Date 08/2024
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Europe and North America 51 States Parties 576 Total number of properties 490 Cultural Properties 12 Mixed Properties 74 Natural Properties 35 Transboundary properties 7 Properties in Danger The Europe and North America region is home to 51 States that have ratified the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World ...
Pages Score 6.5396185 Date 12/2024
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Africa The Africa region covers the 47 States Parties of the World Heritage Convention in the Sub-Saharan Africa. In line with the Global Priority Africa of UNESCO, the Africa unit of the World Heritage Centre strives to enhance the capacity of the Africa region in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. Africa is one of UNESCO’s Global Priorities. ...
Pages Score 6.376609 Date 01/2025
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Success Stories The World Heritage Convention is not only 'words on paper' but is above all a useful instrument for concrete action in preserving threatened sites and endangered species. By recognizing the Outstanding Universal Value of a site, States Parties commit to its preservation and strive to find solutions for its protection. If a site is inscribed on the List of ...
Pages Score 6.36672 Date 12/2022
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Asia & Pacific Asia & Pacific Region 46 States Parties 297 Properties currently inscribed on the World Heritage List 212 Cultural Properties 12 Mixed Properties 73 Natural Properties 8 Transboundary properties 6 Properties in Danger Periodic Reporting in Asia & Pacific Region As a State Party-driven exercise, ...
Pages Score 6.20682 Date 10/2024
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Periodic Reporting © UNESCO / Valentino Etowar What is Periodic Reporting Periodic Reporting is one of the core conservation monitoring mechanisms of the World Heritage Convention. Every eight years or so, the States Parties are invited to submit to the World Heritage Committee a Periodic Report on the application of the World Heritage Convention in their ...
Pages Score 6.0992723 Date 11/2024
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Governing Bodies --> Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee --->10-25 September 2023 24th session of the General Assembly of States Parties 2023 Statutory Meetings Extended 45th session (2023) 18th Extraordinary session (2023) 24rd GA (2023) All Decisions All meetings States Parties World Heritage Fund International Assistance The Centre Who is Who ...
Pages Score 6.005615 Date 07/2024
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Governing Bodies --> 47th session of the World Heritage Committee 6-16 July 2025 25th session of the General Assembly of States Parties 2025 Statutory Meetings 47th session (2025) 46th session (2024) 25th GA (2025) 24th GA (2023) All Decisions All meetings States Parties World Heritage Fund International Assistance The Centre Who is Who Employment ...
Pages Score 5.905283 Date 12/2024
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World Heritage in Danger The List of World Heritage in Danger is designed to inform the international community of conditions which threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage List, and to encourage corrective action. This section describes the List of World Heritage in Danger and gives examples of sites that are inscribed on ...
Pages Score 4.531252 Date 07/2024
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World Heritage Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. play_arrow Video provided by the Austrian Commission for UNESCODownload the video The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...
Pages Score 4.4824533 Date 12/2024
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Director of World Heritage Lazare Eloundou Assomo Since 2021Originally from Cameroon, Mr Eloundou Assomo is a graduate in architecture (Grenoble School of Architecture, France) and in urban planning (DEA Grenoble 1). He began his career as an associate researcher at the Centre for Earthen Construction of the Grenoble School of Architecture in 1996. He was then in ...
Pages Score 4.405118 Date 11/2024
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Maps Get geographical visualization of the conservation of World Heritage since 1979 Map showing properties to be examined in 2025 Map showing all the properties that have been examined since 1979 World Heritage properties impacted by extractive industries over the past 10 years World Heritage properties at risk due to conflict situations over the ...
Pages Score 4.2975674 Date 10/2024
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World Heritage Canopy Heritage Solutions for Sustainable Futures © UNESCO Environment and resilience Climate change Inclusion and participation Knowledge and skills Peace and security Prosperity and livelihoods Gender equality Learn more about the thematic framework Case studies {{replace "mapview"}} Search ...
Pages Score 4.285325 Date 08/2023
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The Criteria for Selection To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. These criteria are explained in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention which, besides the text of the Convention, is the main working tool on World Heritage. The ...
Pages Score 4.2660594 Date 03/2022
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The World Heritage Convention The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it links together in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties. The Convention recognizes the way in which people interact with nature, and the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the two. The ...
Pages Score 4.243694 Date 01/2025
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Periodic Reporting Questionnaire2008-2015 - Section I and II Filling in the questionnaire requires the gathering of substantial amounts of information. Hence, the time necessary to fill in the questionnaire depends on the availability and accessibility of this information. It is recommended to start the exercise as soon as possible in order to get an overview of the ...
Pages Score 3.7989202 Date 04/2022
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World Heritage Policy Compendium The World Heritage Policy Compendium is a database of World Heritage policies. It is organized around the 5 Strategic Objectives of the Convention - known as the 5Cs, - including Credibility, Conservation, Capacity Building, Communication and Communities, together with a first chapter on General Policies. Tour guide © UNESCO Explore ...
Pages Score 3.421257 Date 10/2022
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Launched in 2002 in an effort to publish a series on various World Heritage subjects, the series will include: papers related to World Heritage issues; reports from seminars, workshops and meetings; and manuals aimed at facilitating the implementation of the World Heritage Convention for its various actors. This series is targeted mainly at World Heritage experts, national ...
Pages Score 3.3834424 Date 02/2022
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Periodic ReportingQuestionnaire Third Cycle exercise | 2018-2024 © {{replace "periodicText"}} Access to specific State Party or World Heritage property Periodic Reporting questionnaire is restricted to designated national focal points and World Heritage site managers.  Third Cycle 2018-2024 The questionnaire for the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting was revised ...
Pages Score 3.3545594 Date 11/2024
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List of factorsaffecting the properties Within the framework of the revision of the questionnaire of the Periodic Reporting exercise (Section II) in 2008, the World Heritage Committee adopted a standard list of factors affecting the Outstanding Universal Value of World Heritage properties. This list was established following a 2-year consultation process with experts in ...
Pages Score 3.1766312 Date 07/2024
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The World Heritage Newsletter gives up-to-date accounts of policy-making and issues facing World Heritage. Available in English and French The World Heritage Review featuring in-depth articles on cultural and natural World Heritage sites. Published every two months in English, French and Spanish. World Heritage Paper Series launched in 2002 in an ...
Pages Score 3.080577 Date 01/2014
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Reporting and Monitoring Inscribing a site on the World Heritage List is not the end of the story. Site managers and local authorities continuously need to work towards managing, monitoring and preserving the World Heritage properties. State of conservation States Parties have an obligation to regularly prepare reports about the state of conservation and the various ...
Pages Score 3.0109372 Date 03/2022
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Global Strategy In 1994, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List. Its aim is to ensure that the List reflects the world's cultural and natural diversity of outstanding universal value. Twenty-two years after the adoption of the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural ...
Pages Score 3.0109205 Date 03/2022
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International Assistance under the World Heritage Convention is a financial assistance granted to the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, in order to help them protect the cultural or natural heritage sites inscribed on the World Heritage List or on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Apply for funding See completed projects Fund Projects under ...
Pages Score 2.7248583 Date 12/2024
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Marketplace For World Heritage Fund a project to support World Heritage © UNESCO Projects in search of funding Funded projects Why fund World Heritage projects Contact --> The Marketplace is a donor-meet-project platform where World Heritage donors will find a wide range of exciting and innovative World Heritage projects to fund. By funding one or more projects on ...
Pages Score 2.5737305 Date 02/2024
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World Heritage Emblem Its use is strictly regulated and determined by the World Heritage Committee, with guidelines for its use defined in Chap. VIII + Annex 14 of the Operational Guidelines. It is protected under the international World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) act. The World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and ...
Pages Score 2.4184756 Date 02/2024
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Governing Bodies Consultation of the Governing Bodiesof the World Heritage Convention At its 39th session (Paris, 2019), the UNESCO General Conference endorsed the recommendations of the Working Group on Governance with its Resolution 39 C/87, and notably the Recommendation 74, which states that UNESCO’s International and Intergovernmental Bodies (IIBs) “should have the ...
Pages Score 2.2986758 Date 02/2022
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A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each State Party intends to consider for nomination. Tentative List Submission Format English French Consult an example of a Tentative List submission Tentative List submission Format for Transnational and Transboundary Future Nominations English  French Guidance on Developing and Revising ...
Pages Score 2.1820762 Date 06/2022
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Partnerships World Heritage partnerships for conservation © Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political ...
Pages Score 2.0767348 Date 02/2022
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Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage This publication highlights the impacts of climate change on 26 natural and cultural World Heritage properties, along with ongoing and planned adaptation and mitigation measures. There are five chapters on glaciers, marine biodiversity, terrestrial biodiversity, archaeological sites, and historic cities and settlements, and ...
Pages Score 1.9965541 Date 06/2020
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World Heritage Centre Established in 1992, the World Heritage Centre is the focal point and coordinator within UNESCO for all matters related to World Heritage. Ensuring the day-to-day management of the Convention, the Centre organizes the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee and its Bureau, provides advice to States Parties in the preparation of site ...
Pages Score 1.6103027 Date 04/2016
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World Heritage Centre Established in 1992, the World Heritage Centre is the focal point and coordinator within UNESCO for all matters related to World Heritage. Ensuring the day-to-day management of the Convention, the Centre organizes the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee and its Bureau, provides advice to States Parties in the preparation of site ...
Pages Score 1.5521991 Date 03/2023
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World Heritage List Nominations Only countries that have signed the World Heritage Convention, pledging to protect their natural and cultural heritage, can submit nomination proposals for properties on their territory to be considered for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. {{type6 Nominations proposedfor examination security Only visible to Advisory Bodies ...
Pages Score 1.3451364 Date 03/2024
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The World Heritage Committee The World Heritage Committee meets once a year, and consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention elected by their General Assembly. At its first session, the Committee adopted its Rules of Procedure of the World Heritage Committee. The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage ...
Pages Score 1.2759604 Date 12/2024
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The General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention As per Article 8(1) of the World Heritage Convention (or Rule 49 of the Rules of Procedure of the World Heritage Committee ), the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention meets during the sessions of the General Conference of UNESCO. The General Assembly manages its meetings according to ...
Pages Score 0.90157676 Date 09/2024
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This section provides information about the 1972 World Heritage Convention and UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre. It includes answers to frequently asked questions in the following areas: World Heritage/The Convention The World Heritage List The Nomination of Sites World Heritage in Danger The World Heritage Fund Education Partnerships Publications The World Heritage ...
Pages Score 0.77211976 Date 06/2020
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Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage The General Conference of UNESCO adopted on 16 November 1972 the Recommendation concerning the Protection at National Level, of the Cultural and Natural Heritage. Complete Text Read the complete text of the World Heritage Convention. Download the complete text in the language of your ...
Pages Score 0.7714312 Date 03/2023
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Web Style Guide The World Heritage Centre Website mainly use YAML css Framework. The website strucutre is based on a flexible and responsive grid. It support old Internet Explorer versions, and it is tested with IE7 and Higher. Table of content Typography Headings Paragraphs Messages Blockquotes Inline Text Unordered List Ordered List Definition ...
Pages Score 0.5138681 Date 08/2021
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