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Portugal,,The Bureau at its twenty-second session took note of a report on the impact of works at the River Douro on the World Heritage values of the site of Porto. In response, the State Party by letter dated 16 November 1998, informed that:
- the works would be undertaken at three kilometres distance from the World Heritage site
- due to the distance and the ...
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Bulgaria,
Upstream Iron Gates dam
Deterioration of the water quality
Impact of upstream pig farms
Loss of biodiversity
,At its twenty-fourth ordinary session from 26 June to 1 July 2000, the Bureau noted that a cyanide spill in the Danube River had been contained without any major impacts to the integrity of the site. Nevertheless, the Bureau had encouraged the State Party ...
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Nepal,
Construction of concrete foundations at the Maya Devi Temple site in December 1998
Need for a site conservation plan
Extremely harsh natural environment
,The Centre received an international assistance request from the Nepalese authorities for the organisation of the International Technical Meeting to discuss and initiate alternative draft conceptual designs for ...
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,In the context of Chandigarh's nomination to the World Heritage List, as part of the serial nomination of "The Architectural and Urban Work of Le Corbusier", the World Heritage Centre in cooperation with the Chandigarh authorities, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the UNESCO New Delhi office has organized a 3-day technical workshop on site management and ...
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Kyoto, Japan,Course will take place 3-15 November 2008, Kyoto, Japan
The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto is organizing the 3rd International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 3 to 15 November 2008, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and ...
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Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain,Thanks to the generous invitation of the Kingdom of Bahrain, fourteen out of the eighteen States Parties from the Arab Region met in Manama to launch the second cycle of the Periodic Reporting decided by the World Heritage Committee at its 32nd session in Quebec City (July 2008).
Two days of the meeting were devoted to training for the drafting ...
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,This international colloquium, sponsored by the German Research Association (DFG), is held at the Technical University Dresden in association with ICOMOS from 13 to 14 June 2014. It will for the first time address the issues of Integrating Heritage Conservation and Flood Control Concepts along rivers and streams.
Increasingly frequent disasters ...
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UNESCO Headquarters,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre invited representatives of StatesParties to the World Heritage Convention to participate in an information and exchange meeting on the 39th session, which will take place from 28 June to 8 July in Bonn, Germany.
After a welcome note by the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Prof. Maria Bohmer, the German ...
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,The World Heritage Centre will be hosting an online information session on 3 September 2020 for the UNESCO Field Offices, Category 2 Centres in Asia and the Pacific and the Advisory Bodies, in preparation of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the APA region.
On 3 September 2020, the World Heritage Centre will host an online information session with the UNESCO Field ...
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,In the framework of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting, which started in the Africa region in September 2019, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in close collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund and UNESCO Field Offices, is organising a final regional online workshop for National Focal Points of the Africa region to present the outcomes of Periodic Reporting ...
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,On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), and in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, ARC-WH is delighted to announce the week-long event, World Heritage Days. Each activity is catered towards highlighting the importance of celebrating and preserving World ...
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Chott El Jerid est situé dans la partie continentale du sud-ouest du pays. Site partagé entre le Gouvernorat de Tozeur et le Gouvernorat de Kebili. Villes les plus proches : Tozeur (au nord- ouest) et Kebili (au sud-est). Il s'étend sur une superficie de 586.187ha.
Le Chott El Jerid est une vaste dépression salée, située entre la chaîne de montagnes du Cherb au nord et le ...
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Batroun est une ville de la côte méridionale du Liban. Se situant à environ 54 km au nord de Beyrouth, elle s’étend sur un promontoire rocheux, avec une superficie de 4.68km².
Cette ville a été occupée de façon continue depuis le bronze ancien jusqu’à nos jours.
En effet, les travaux archéologiques qui ont eu lieu récemment au centre de la ville ancienne de Batroun ont ...
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Aperçu historique
Le parc national d'El Feijaa été investi par l'homme depuis ng=" préhistoire, à savoir il y a 10.000 ans (le néolithique). La présence des silex et des obsidiennes taillés atteste de cette présence. L'appropriation préhistorique de ce site est encore plus attestée par des traces de peintures rupestres dans les creux du Rocher de Kef Negcha, qui ...
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According to Paragraph 23 of the 'Policy Document for the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention' (World Heritage Sustainable Development Policy), "Gender equality is one of UNESCO’s two global priorities. The UNESCO Priority Gender Equality Action Plan (2014-2021), moreover, requires Member States and the ...
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Cultural heritage is defined in Article 1 of the World Heritage Convention.
'For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "cultural heritage";
- monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of ...
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CLT/WHC-11/17
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Historical documents show that the sinking method of the Karez wells inside Xinjiang including the Western Region was introduced by the Han people. The majority of the ethnic minorities of the northwest borderland hadn't mastered the sinking technology by that time. It was Lin Zexu that stood out among all the people who advocated and promoted the Karez wells as the ...
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Khazarasp is one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia. Many ancient authors of East At-Tabbari (XI century), Arabian historian Al-Istakhri (X century), Beykhaki (XI), Djuveni (XIII century) and many other were mentioned about this city. It is a coeval to Memphis, Rome, Athenes, Merv, Samarkand, Bukhara and many other cities.Khazarasp was the main advanced post of ...
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CLT/WHC-11/21
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CLT/WHC-12/18
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Near Lake General Carrera, to the east of the southern Andes, there are manifestations of rupestrian art constituting the so-called "Patagonian Art Style", which is the oldest in South America. Its best known representations are those of hands, the scenes depicting guanacos, and the frets which, although ill preserved, reach up to some eaves of the pempas region stretching ...
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On 15 December, the Representatives of Italy, Jordan, UNESCO, INTERPOL, UNODC officially opened an exhibition on the protection of cultural heritage that will be displayed at the United Nations Headquarters from 14 to 24 December.
The exhibition is co-organized by Italy, Jordan, UNESCO, INTERPOL and UNODC with the aim to highlight the new partnership to act together ...
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new sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Nominations to be examined Cultural properties Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, Renaissance Hydraulic Complex in America (Mexico) Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalu and Monreale (Italy) Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea) Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan) Bet She’arim ...
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Cambodia,
Inadequate protective legislation;
Inadequately staffed national protection agency;
No permanent boundaries established and defined buffer zones;
Need for monitoring and coordination of the international conservation effort
,In the framework of assistance provided by the UNESCO Secretariat to the Cambodian authorities, to enable them to honour the ...
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Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan,The 10th expert working group meeting for the preservation of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley World Heritage property, will be held in Tokyo from 6 to 8 December 2011, followed by two public symposiums concerning Bamiyan on 9 and 11 December, in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan.
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is ...
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Turin, Italy,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will be holding the 3rd Expert Working Group Meeting for the Old City of Herat and the Archaeological Remains of the Jam World Heritage Site at the Museo d'Arte Orientale in Turin, Italy, from 4 to 6 September 2012. More than 20 world-famous experts, as well as representatives of donor countries, Afghan experts and high-ranking ...
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre will organize a photographic exhibition “The Preservation of the World Heritage Site of the Koguryo Tombs and Mural Paintings of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 2001-2012” from 12 to 26 October 2012 at Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris.
Over the last decade, ...
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Baku, Azerbaijan,In the framework of the implementation of the Second Cycle of the Periodic Reporting in Europe and North America, the World Heritage National Focal Points for Periodic Reporting from the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe countries met in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 to 31 October 2013.
The workshop included a practical training session on the use ...
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,In July 2021, the UNESCO Office in Almaty, in close cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and three Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS, IUCN), will organize a series of online capacity-building webinars for individuals and organizations responsible for the management of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage sites in Central ...
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Les forêts humides sont principalement localisées dans la partie orientale de Madagascar, à l'Est de la ligne de partage des eaux. Cependant des blocs forestiers relativement grands sont éparpillés sur le Haut Plateau central et dans la partie septentrionale de l'île. Le climat est de type tropical humide, caractérisé par des précipitations abondantes. Du nord vers ...
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Il s’agit de biens funéraires produits d’une brillante civilisation originale à la fois africaine et méditerranéenne.
Ces monuments royaux représentent une sélection d’exemples remarquables de sépultures remontant à des périodes variées et issues de régions différentes. Ils témoignent de la diversité des conceptions architecturales et techniques ...
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Le site de Nosy Lonjo est un site mixte. Il se trouve à l’extrême-Nord de Madagascar dans la baie de Diégo-Suarez, Commune Ramena, District d’Antsiranana. Nosy Lonjo est un îlot d’origine volcanique, de forme conique de 122 mètres de hauteur et d’une superficie de 4,5 hectares. Il est constitué par des bancs de calcaire nummulitique détachés de la montagne dénommée ...
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Saada est une des plus anciennes cites médiévales du Yémen, d'une grande importance pour sa valeur historique, architecturale, urbaine et spirituelle.
Saada fondée par l'Imam AI-Hadi Yaya au 9ème siècle, devient le berceau du "zaydisme", puissante école spirituelle de la pensée musulmane du Yémen. Elle prospère, habitée sans interruption dans un schéma médiéval avec une ...
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We are happy to publish this special issue dedicated to the World Heritage sites of the Russian Federation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, which the Committee will be celebrating at its meeting in Saint Petersburg on 25 June 2012.
The inscription of both cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List has progressed rapidly ...
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List of wetlands which have been designated by the Parties to the Ramsar Convention as internationally important according to one or more of the criteria that have been adopted by the Conference of the Parties.
Source(s): www.ramsar.org
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Protection and management of World Heritage properties, as outlined in the Operational Guidelines should ensure that the OUV, the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity at the time of inscription are maintained or enhanced in the future (Paragraph 96).
Source(s): Managing Natural World Heritage
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WHC/17/12.EXTCOM/4
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