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Portugal,,The joint mission of IUCN/ICOMOS requested by the Bureau at its twenty-fourth session will take place from 30 October to 3 November 2000. The results of the mission will be presented during the session of the Bureau.
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Latitude et longitude, ou coordonnées UTM :Grotte Schmerling à Flémalle (Province de Liège) : N50,592194 - E5,409043 Grotte Scladina à Andenne (Province de Namur) : N50,485766 – E5,026237 Grotte de Goyet à Gesves (Province de Namur) : N50,446026 – E5,013761 Grotte de l’Homme de Spy à Jemeppe-sur-Sambre (Province de Namur) : N50,480355 – E4,674643
La Wallonie présente une ...
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Situé dans le Centre-ouest du pays, le site archéologique de Sbeïtla renferme les vestiges de la ville antique de Sufetula Musuniorum (Sufetula des Musunii). Fondée ex nihilo par l’administration romaine au cours du 3e quart du 1er siècle après J.C. L’agglomération a été établie sur un plateau assez plat dans une boucle de l’oued Sbeïtla, immédiatement en contrebas d’une ...
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Tout au long des 151 km de son parcours en Wallonie, la Meuse définit une vallée remarquable par son ampleur verticale et la présence de nombreux affleurements rocheux. De Givet à Namur, elle traverse la Famenne puis le plateau condruzien perpendiculairement à son plissement ouest - est et y imprime une véritable tranchée de plus de 100 m de profondeur. En aval de Namur, ...
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A l'est de la Belgique, le plateau hercynien pénéplané, puis à nouveau exhaussé, forme la série des collines ardennaises. Les plus élevées dessinent une ligne de crête, d'orientation sud-ouest nord-ouest, que l'on peut suivre depuis la Croix Scaille (505m), par la Barrière de Charnplon (589m), la Baraque de Fraiture (652m), la Baraque Michel (672m), le signal de Botrange ...
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WHC/21/23.GA/INF.10
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WHC/19/43.COM/10B
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WHC-13/19.GA/11
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Lors de la construction d'une rocade, la société danoise DANISA a découvert au mois de février 1998 le village souterrain d'Agongointo-Zougoundo constitué par une série de caves du genre bunker allemand, faites de sol ferrugineux tropicaux et présentant des formes géométriques différentes.
Situées à 10 mètres environ sous-terre, ces caves ont été aménagées à la lumière ...
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La ville de Lixus est d’après de nombreux auteurs anciens l'une des premières cites de l'occident méditerranéen. Elle est située à l'embouchure de l'oued Lukkos, en face de la ville moderne de Larache.
Les fouilles qui y ont été entreprises ont montré que le site a été occupé depuis le VIIIème siècle avant J.C jusqu'au XIV4me siècle après J.C. Les secteurs fouillés ont ...
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The Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt is committed to undertaking three dimensional architectural surveys at the two Monasteries of St. Paul and St Anthony and the Ottoman Fort at Quseir, by the Red Sea coast of Egypt. This is part of the conservation and restoration projects currently carried out by the Antiquities Development ...
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The technical mission sent by the Director-General of UNESCO to the Old City of Jerusalem, which is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, completed its technical assessment on the works conducted on the pathway to the Haram el-Sharif.This mission, conducted by Francesco Bandarin, Director of the World Heritage Centre, took place from 27 February to 2 March 2007. ...
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On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the ‘Association of World Heritage Cities of Spain’, celebrated in the city of Avila on 17 September, the World Heritage Centre was awarded Spain’s first ever ‘Patrimonio’ prize for its ‘exemplary efforts in safeguarding the world’s cultural and natural heritage.’
Her Majesty ...
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The German Minister of the Environment Hans-Heinrich Sander (Lower Saxony) and the Minister of Fishery Dr Juliane Rumpf (Schleswig-Holstein) received the UNESCO certificate for the transboundary World Heritage site of the Wadden Sea during the inscription ceremony on 2 October 2010 on a boat off the town of Büsum in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. ...
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The 3rd Meeting of European World Heritage Associations will take place in the Hanseatic City of Lubeck from 5 to 6 October 2017. It is being organized by the German World Heritage Sites Association, the German Commission for UNESCO and Lubeck & Travemunde Marketing GmbH, and features as its theme “Sharing World Heritage”.
Following the launch of the initiative in ...
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Cuba,,The original nomination file for this property was considered by the World Heritage Bureau during its 23rd session in July 1999. In the IUCN evaluation report presented at that session, the existence of old and inactive mining concessions located near the area originally nominated by the State Party was clearly identified, and it was indicated that any activation of ...
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Nepal,Tourism Pressure; Logging; Lack of human or financial resources; Lack of institution coordination. ,The Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPWC) of Nepal, in a report attached to its letter of 27 January 2004 to the Centre, noted that the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed in writing that it will remove equipment and other construction ...
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Russian Federation,
Pollution of the Lake from the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill
Questions about the legal status of some parts along the border of the site (issue resolved)
Unregulated hunting and fishing
Extensive building development
Lack of financial resources
Continuing decline of the Baikal Seal ...
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Alexandria, Egypt,Local counterparts for this expert meeting are the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cairo University Centre for Architectural and Engineering Design and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The fifth and last Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage in its series was for the Mediterranean Basin at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, ...
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France,On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, UNESCO is hosting, from 16th to 18th November 2005, an international symposium on the Organization’s history, which will take place at its Headquarters in Paris. Round Table 6, “Discovering the Heritage of Humanity” will take place on 17 November from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room IV, and will be open ...
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St. William’s College, York,York Spaces is the first of two seminars organised by the ICOMOS-UK Cultural Tourism Committee exploring links between the tangible and intangible heritage in terms of the association of people to the spaces and places they experience as visitors. The part played by cultural expression and community participation in creating meaning and memories ...
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Christchurch, New Zealand,The 31st session of the World HeritageCommittee, Christchurch, New Zealand, 23 June to 2 July 2007. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 States Parties to the Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention. The current ...
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Kyoto, Japan,UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2013
Theme of 2013 International Training Course: Reducing Disaster Risks through Mitigation
The year's training programme will focus on policies and planning measures for mitigating risks to cultural heritage from ...
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UNESCO Headquarters - Fontenoy Room II,At its 19th session (UNESCO, 2013), the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention decided (Resolution 19 GA 4) to fully apply Article 8, paragraph 2, of the World Heritage Convention which stipulates that “Election of members of the Committee shall ensure an equitable representation of the different regions ...
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Florence, Italy – S. Croce, sala del Cenacolo,Services for Culture: a visit of qualityPolicies, best practices and experiences in managing services for the public at heritage sites.
The audience and participants for the 5th Conference are all museums, monuments, libraries, archives and archaeological sites open to the public and under either public or private ...
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Hongcun Village, Anhui Province, China,The international workshop 'Strengthening south-south collaboration on World Heritage and sustainable tourism' will be held at Hongcun Village, Anhui Province in China.
This international workshop will focus on the power of tourism for local economic development and the conservation of heritage values through international ...
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,The Historic Town of Grand Bassam, Cote d'Ivoire, will launch a tree planting initiative on 6 December 2014 to enhance its tree-lined boulevards.
On the occasion of the centenary of the creation of the town of Grand Bassam (1914-2014), the Town of Grand Bassam will begin to replant trees along the boulevards of Treich-Lapleine and Bonhoure, in collaboration with the ...
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Udenisht, Pogradec area, Albania,The Fifth Management Planning Workshop, in the framework of the project “Towards strengthened governance of the shared transboundary natural and cultural heritage of the Lake Ohrid region” will take place in Udenisht, Pogradec area, Albania, on 22 and 23 June 2016.
The workshop will focus on governance systems and more specifically on the ...
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Istanbul Congress Centre, Salle Yıldız 1, Turkey,On the occasion of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Europe and North America unit is organizing a side event for Focal Points in the region to exchange on follow-up activities to the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting.
The Helsinki Action Plan Monitoring Survey will be presented at the side event. This ...
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Technical University of Munich, Germany,The 13th Bamiyan Expert Working Group Meeting will be held at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, from 1 to 3 December 2016. A set of recommendations for future safeguarding actions for the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley World Heritage property, Afghanistan will be released at the ...
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Krakow, Poland,Relevant information regarding the session will be put online as soon as it becomes available
Programme,Side Events
All about the 41st World Heritage Committee session as well as important information on the programme and conference venue. Available soon More-->
Contact,Organisers
Find a list of relevant contacts for specific requests to the ...
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Budapest, Hungary,The Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Audrey Azoulay, announced on 14 February 2019 the launch of nominations for the prestigious UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation.
The prize will be awarded for the 15th time during the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary, from 20-23 November 2019. The prize is USD 100,000 and is allocated every ...
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,La Noche del Patrimonio is an unprecedented world-class cultural and artistic event taking placesimultaneously in the 15 Spanish World Heritage Cities. For one special night every September, the best of international contemporary dance, UNESCO World Heritage sites and local culture expressions light up the cityscape of the 15 Spanish cities with a celebration that is open ...
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QUITO, Ecuador13-17 March 2000
Forty-seven participants from Heritage Institutes in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico participated in the Workshop organized by the UNESCO Quito Office. Participants included heritage specialists, ASPnet Co-ordinators, university professors, teachers and UNESCO field staff. Close co-operation with the Ecuadorian National ...
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Ile d'Aix (Region Poitou-Charentes)25 august- 15 september 2008
Description
Fort Liedot forms part of the Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente (World Heritage Tentative List as cultural site, 2002).
The site is in need for regular restoratiions and installations. The work camp will continue works of the restoration in the parhs of th ...
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Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed in 2005, as an extension to the 32 Belgian belfries inscribed in 1999 as Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia. Built between the 11th and 17th centuries, they showcase the Roman, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles of architecture. They are highly significant tokens of the ...
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En Basse-Casamance, région africaine considérée comme un des “berceaux primaires” de la riziculture, se sont développées des formes d’habitat remarquables, aussi sophistiquées que les types d’aménagements agricoles réalisés dans une vaste zone de mangrove estuarienne. Dans toute cette zone, les grandes maisons en banco, aux charpentes solides et ...
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The first regional meeting on "Transboundary Cooperation for effective management of World Heritage Sites in Africa" was held from 11 to 15 February 2019 in the city of Man (Cote d'Ivoire), located at 100 km from the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, the first African transboundary property inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Funded by the Netherlands Funds-in-Trust, ...
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UNESCO World Heritage Centre in collaboration with UNESCO Apia Office in Samoa and the Department of Conservation in New Zealand launched the Programme from 17 - 22 October 2004 at Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. The workshop, funded by the Nordic World Heritage Foundation and Italian Funds-in-Trust, was attended by the Pacific Island Countries including Australia ...
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Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of African World Heritage Day 5 May 2022.
Fifty years ago, the States Members of UNESCO met to adopt the World Heritage Convention, which to this day remains the cornerstone of international cultural cooperation.
In 1978, this essential instrument finally became operational when the first 12 sites ...
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La médina de Sfax a été fondée en 849 après J.-C. sur ordre des émirs aghlabides de Kairouan, la capitale de l'Ifrikiya. Morphologiquement, elle se distingue par son plan orthogonal régulier et par l'absence presque totale d'impasses. Elle est organisée en quatre grands ilots où l'axe principal est doublé reliant les deux uniques portes originales qui ouvrent l'une ...
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Communities is one of the five strategic objectives for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention (Credibility, Conservation, Capacity Building, Communication and Communities). These 5 ‘Cs’ were adopted in 2002 at the World Heritage Committee session held in Budapest, Hungary, and were enlarged to encompass ‘communities’ in 2007 (Christchurch, New Zealand, ...
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Quality of life is the notion of human welfare (well-being) measured by social indicators (such as the possibility to vote, demonstrate, or participate in political parties) rather than by “quantitative” measures of income and production (Glossary of Environment Statistics, Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 67, United Nations, New York, 1997).
Source(s): World Heritage ...
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The World Heritage Committee recognises the benefits of closer coordination and synergies between global conservation instruments (Operational Guidelines Paragraphs 41-44).
The World Heritage Centre reports to the World Heritage Committee annually on synergies with other culture and biodiversity-related Conventions.
For more information, please visit the synergies ...
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One of the main tools of the World Heritage Education Programme, the World Heritage in Young Hands Educational Resource Kit for secondary school teachers was developed in 1998. It aims to sensitize young people to the importance of preserving their local, national and world heritage.
Consult the Resource Kit here.
Source(s): https://whc.unesco.org/en/educationkit/
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WHC-12/36.COM/2
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WHC-13/37.COM/2
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WHC-/39.COM/8E.Rev
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WHC/21/44.COM/8D
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WHC-14/38.COM/8D
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WHC/17/41.COM/INF.14.II
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WHC/19/22.GA/7
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WHC/17/41.COM/10B
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WHC/18/42.COM/6
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WHC/19/43.COM/6
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WHC-99/CONF.204/INF.9B Le Kakadu d'Australie – Protegeons le patrimoine mondial (Reponse du Gouvernement australien au Comite du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO concernant le Parc national de Kakadu (avril 1999) ref.
WHC-99/CONF.204/INF.9B
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Argentina Argentine Argentina Аргентина الأرجنتين 阿根廷 The Argentine Republic
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Canada Canada Canadá Канада كندا 加拿大 Canada
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Republic of Korea République de Corée República de Corea Республика Корея جمهورية كوريا 大韩民国 The Republic of Korea
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Situé dans le tissu ancien de la ville de Gao, quartier Aldjanabandja, le site de la Mosquée de Kankou Moussa couvre aujourd’hui 35 100 m² (3ha 51a). Ce site a abrité la mosquée historique construite par l’Empereur du Manden, Kankou Moussa, à son retour du pèlerinage à la Mecque en 1324. Gao, alors une dépendance de l’Empire du Mali, était l’un des points de rencontre des ...
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La rivière Oronte, de son nom assyrien « Aranton », conserve de part et d'autre de son parcours à partir de la région montagneuse de Baalbek au Liban où elle prend naissance jusqu'à la Méditerranée à 30 km en aval de la ville de Latakié, les vestiges d'un nombre considérable d'anciens petits lacs, retenues d'eau, barrages canaux, aqueducs, ponts, terres ...
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Le Parc Naturel de Fogo est localisé dans la partie centrale de l'île du Fogo et se compose du volcan, le cratère, la Bordeira (rempart montagneux) et le périmètre de la forêt de Monte Velha. Le parc possède une superficie de 8468.5 hectares et est situé à la confluence de trois municipalités : Sao Filipe (1861 ha: 22% du Parc), Santa Catarina (4237 ha: 50% du Parc) et ...
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Antananarivo fut appelée Analamanga — la « forêt bleue » — jusqu’en 1610, année où le roi merina Andrianjaka fit construire son palais sur la plus haute colline de la ville (à plus de 1 300 m d’altitude) et y bâtit le tout premier Rova avec le palais Besakana pour y poster une garnison de 1 000 hommes. L’ancienne Analamanga prend alors le nom d’Antananarivo : la « ville ...
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Le village de Sya ou Dioulassoba est le noyau originel de la ville de Bobo-Dioulasso, capitale économique du Burkina Faso, située au Sud-Ouest du pays, à 365 kilomètres de Ouagadougou. Sya est situé au cœur de la ville de Bobo-Dioulasso, dans l’arrondissement de Konsa, à l’intérieur de la fourche formée par le marigot Houet à l’Est et le Sanyo à ...
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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 criteria are regularly ...
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Intangible cultural heritage is the practices, expressions, knowledge and skills that communities, groups and sometimes individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage. Also called living cultural heritage, it is usually expressed in one of the following forms: oral traditions; performing arts; social practices, rituals and festive events; knowledge and practices ...
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The Clubs, Centres and Associations for UNESCO are groups of volunteers of different ages and socio-professional status who become activists in the service of UNESCO’s ideals.
Established under the aegis of the National Commissions for UNESCO, these Clubs, Centres and Associations are grouped into national, regional and international networks, for the purpose of acting in ...
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The Fund for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of Outstanding Universal Value, called "the World Heritage Fund", was established under Article 15 of the World Heritage Convention. Its resources consist primarily of assessed contributions by the States Parties of the Convention and may be used only for such purposes as the World Heritage Committee ...
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WHC/17/41.COM/2
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WHC-13/37.COM/8E.ADD
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WHC/21/23.GA/7
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WHC/21/44.COM/8
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Belgium Belgique Bélgica Бельгия بلجيكا 比利时 The Kingdom of Belgium
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Poland Pologne Polonia Польша بولندا 波兰 The Republic of Poland
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Portugal Portugal Portugal Португалия البرتغال 葡萄牙 The Portuguese Republic
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WHC-15/20.GA/10
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Le Tata de Sikasso ou tarakoko selon une appellation locale, a été édifié sous le règne de Tièba, entre 1877 et 1897. L'ouvrage fut agrandi et renforcé par Babemba. Au moment du siège sans succès de Samory, quinze mois durant - de mars 1887 à juin 1888, il comptait trois enceintes concentriques :
- le tata extérieur mesurant 9 km, épais de 6m à la base et de 2m au ...
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India,
Construction of a dam (issue resolved);
Bodo people insurgency;
Destruction of Park infrastructures;
Illegal removal of vegetation;
Poaching
,Principal issues:
Rehabilitation following damage to infrastructure in 1992 due to rebel activities. Poaching on selected wildlife species.
New information:
At its twenty-fifth session in June 2001, the Bureau had noted that ...
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Voies romaines et cités archéologiques d’Hippone ( Annaba) ; Calama ( Guelma) ; Thibilis (Announa) ; Thubursicu Numidarum (Khamissa), Madaure (M’daourouch); Thagaste (Souk Ahras) ; Castellum Tidditanorum (Tiddis) ; Thagura (Taoura ); Milev ( Mila); Sitifis (Sétif); Caesarea ( Cherchel ); Cartenae ( Ténès); Theveste ( Tébessa) et Tubunae ( Tobna).Parmi les pères de ...
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Les chutes de la Lobé sont situées à environ 6 kilomètres de la ville de Kribi, dans le département de l’océan, sur la côte Atlantique, province du Sud Cameroun. Le site est à 310 Km de Yaoundé la capitale du Cameroun en passant par la ville d’Edéa. Les chutes de la Lobé sont formées à partir d’un ensemble de plusieurs ruisseaux qui progressent en une série de cascades sur ...
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Les Tunnels ferroviaires de NJOCK sont situés dans le village de MINLOH MALOUME (chefferie du village MINLOH) dans la grande forêt du département du Nyong et Kéllé, région du Centre, plus précisément à 15 kilomètres de la ville d’ESEKA sur le tronçon ESEKA-MAKAK. Ce site est un ensemble de trois (03) tunnels réalisés à mains d'hommes dans un massif de rocher (Liaa). Les ...
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L’aire naturelle terrestre de Djalélo est située dans la région d’Arta à 40 km de la capitale. Elle couvre une superficie d’environ 45 km² et abrite la gazelle de Waller appelée aussi Gerenuk, (Litocranius walleri) ou encore « gazelle girafe », une espèce endémique. C’est une espèce d’antilope qui a de longues pattes grêles et un cou élancé, ce qui lui doivent son nom ...
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Caves in Kujang area are the underground karstic grottoes formed during the Quaternary of the Cenozoic Era in the limestone formations. Though their formation periods and lithological characters are same, they are different from one another in the size and scope according to the process of karstic evolution, as well as in the esthetical features according to the conditions ...
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The architectural complex of "Khazrati Shoh" i.e. mausoleum was built on the place of the grave of the saint, whose name was Khazra posho mir Khamza.There are many fragments of artistic carving on the ceiling, therefore the scientist suppose that the mausoleum was built of an old building or near it. Primarily it was square wooden mausoleum. There were columns in ...
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The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is still accepting entries for the 2004 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.The Awards programme recognizes outstanding conservation projects of the built heritage, undertaken by private sector entities or through public-private partnerships. Now in its fifth ...
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Christchurch, New Zealand, 28 June - The World Heritage Committee on Thursday took the unprecedented decision of removing a site from UNESCO's World Heritage List. The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman), home to the rare antelope, today became the first site to be deleted since UNESCO's 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage ...
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Béthanie - the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Landmark Heritage Campus has been awarded an Honourable Mention at the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards.
An award presentation ceremony will take place on 9 December 2008 at the Béthanie campus. Officiating guests include Ms Béatrice Kaldun, UNESCO's China representative for Culture ...
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UNESCO dispatched an expert mission to the Philippines from 4 to 11 December following the massive earthquake and powerful typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which successively struck the central region of the country in October and early November 2013. The goal of the mission was to assist the Government and people of the Philippines in assessing the impact of the disasters on ...
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At its 38th session to be held in Doha, Qatar, from 15 to 25 June 2014, the World Heritage Committee will examine the state of conservation of 150 World Heritage properties. The full reports are now publicly available through the World Heritage State of conservation Information System at the following Web address: whc.unesco.org/en/soc
As part of the reactive monitoring ...
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At its 41st session to be held in Krakow, Poland, from 2 to 12 July 2017, the World Heritage Committee will examine the state of conservation of 154 World Heritage properties. The full reports on these properties are now publicly available through the World Heritage Centre’ State of conservation Information System at the following Web ...
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The World Heritage Centre and the advisory body for natural World Heritage, IUCN, are following with concern the situation in the immediate surroundings of the Galápagos Islands, where the massive presence of industrial fishing vessels from diverse nationalities has been repeatedly reported by media worldwide.
The state of conservation for the Galápagos Islands, including ...
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The International Committee on Historic Towns and Villages (CIVVIH) was established in 1982. The Committee deals with questions relevant to the planning and management of historic towns and villages. Its membership is made of experts who have different professional backgrounds related to historic town preservation. They come from ICOMOS member countries all over the world ...
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Italy Italie Italia Италия إيطاليا 意大利 The Italian Republic
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Spain,,In May 1993 the World Heritage Centre received from an individual from Spain an extensive report suggesting serious problems as to the conservation of this World Heritage Site. The report pointed out that no appropriate institutional arrangements between the national, regional and local authorities were in place, that no restoration and conservation plans existed ...
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Peru,
Fragility of its adobe structures;
Occupation of land by farmers
,The Chan Chan Archaeological Zone was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1986 in view of the fragility of its adobe structures. An extensive monitoring report on the conditions of the site, prepared in the context of the regional monitoring programme for Latin America, was presented ...
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Munich, Germany,The 8th Bamiyan Working Group meeting is organized by UNESCO (World Heritage Centre in close collaboration with UNESCO Kabul Office) for the 25th and 26th of March 2010 in Munich at the Munich Technical University in cooperation with ICOMOS Germany. The aim of the meeting is to advise UNESCO and the Afghanistan authorities on issues related to the ...
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Seoul, Korea,Full and short paper submission deadline for the 16th Int'l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia with a special track on Virtual Heritage. To be held October 20-23, 2010 in Seoul, Korea, VSMM 2010 will bring information technology and multimedia specialist together with leaders in Art, Science and Heritage to explore creative solutions to 21st Century ...
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,The National Museum of Cambodia, founded in 1920, possesses one of the world's greatest collections of Khmer artefacts. They include sculpture, ceramics and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian and post-Angkorian periods.
As an active member of the UNESCO/Japanese-Funds-in-Trust project “Revitalising World Heritage Site Museums in ...
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Florence, Italy – S. Croce, sala del Cenacolo,Services for Culture: a visit of qualityPolicies, best practices and experiences in managing services for the public at heritage sites.
The audience and participants for the 5th Conference are all museums, monuments, libraries, archives and archaeological sites open to the public and under either public or private ...
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Room XI (Fontenoy),The World Heritage Centre is organizing an information and exchange session for the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention on the occasion of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee (Istanbul, Turkey, from 1 to 20 July 2016).
This meeting will take place in Room XI (Fontenoy) from 10 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on Tuesday, ...
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Grand Palais, South-East Gallery - 3, avenue du General Eisenhower, Paris 8th,Grand Palais, South-East Gallery - 3, avenue du General Eisenhower, Paris 8thFree admission| Every day (except Tuesdays) from 10 am to 8 pm and on Wednesdays until 10 pm.
With exceptional digital techonologies, the Eternal Sites exhibition offers an unprecedented immersive experience at the heart ...
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Boulogne-sur-mer, France,Nausicaa, the French National Sea Centre, is organizing the High Seas International Conference to raise public awareness and mobilize civil society on the challenges of the High Seas.
The Conference takes place from 27 to 28 June 2018 in Boulogne-sur-mer and is co-organized with l’Agence Francaise pour la Biodiversite (AFB), the Food and ...
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UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, Room IV,World Heritage and Sustainable Development: sharing experiences from Africa and China
The World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund and the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, organized the UNESCO-Africa-China Forum on World Heritage Capacity Building and Cooperation, from ...
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The International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage (ICC) was formed in 2002 to coordinate all international efforts for the safeguarding of cultural heritage in Afghanistan. UNESCO was entrusted with coordinating all such activities by the Afghan government.
The mandate of this Committee as defined in its Statutes as approved ...
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The 13th Bamiyan Expert Working Group Meeting met at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (1-3 December 2016), and released important recommendations for future safeguarding actions at the Bamiyan World Heritage site, Afghanistan.
The Governor of the Bamiyan province, the Deputy Minister of Culture of Afghanistan, accompanied by high-ranking officials from the ...
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L'oasis de la région de Gabès est une ancienne oasis traditionnelle littorale qui doit son existence à trois ressources naturelles et patrimoniales: (i) Un sol, généralement sablonneux, qui à travers du temps a acquis sa caractéristique propre suite à l'utilisation des engrais naturels. (ii) Une eau jaillissante aux endroits où les nappes profondes affleuraient à la ...
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Use of the World Heritage emblem, or logo, is strictly regulated and determined by the World Heritage Committee, with guidelines for its use defined in Chapter 8 of the Operational Guidelines. Please note that before using the World Heritage logo in any form, authorization from the appropriate UNESCO National Commission is required. Click here for more information ...
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Ramsar sites refer to sites listed on the List of Wetlands of International Importance, also known as the Ramsar List. These sites are designated because they meet the Criteria for identifying Wetlands of International Importance. The first criterion refers to Sites containing representative, rare or unique wetland types, and the other eight cover Sites of international ...
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