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Benin, Absence of a national legislative mechanism for the protection of cultural heritage (issue resolved) Major deterioration of almost 50% of the earthen structural components (issue resolved) Lack of presentation and interpretation at the site (issue resolved) Lack and loss of documentation on the site (issue resolved) Lack of sharing of knowledge between site managers ...

Russian Federation, Illegal salmon fishing Gold mining Gas pipeline Development of a geothermal power station Forest fires Boundary changes Construction of the Esso-Palana road Need for the development of a comprehensive national legal framework for the protection and management of natural properties Decline in populations of wild reindeer and snow sheep Lack of management ...

Iran (Islamic Republic of),Threats identified at the time of inscritpion of the property: Speed of the vehicles passing along the buffer zone High-voltage power transmission lines and Zahedan-Zabol main road within the buffer zone No archaeological map of the landscape zone of Shahr-i Sokhta published yet ,On 18 March 2016, the State Party submitted a report on the state ...

Azerbaijan, Changing urban fabric due to the demolition of buildings and uncontrolled construction within the Walled City (issue resolved) Overall lack of any management system and in particular insufficient coordination between the national and municipal authorities (issue resolved) Absence of a comprehensive management plan that addresses conservation problems, urban ...

Iraq, Major looting of Iraqi archaeological sites (issue resolved) Destruction and damage due to the armed conflict ,On 31 January 2017, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report, which is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/277/documents. Progress in a number of conservation issues addressed by the Committee at its previous sessions is presented in ...

France, Project of new buildings within the historic setting (issue resolved) Fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris on 15 April 2019 ,On 15 April 2019, a fire devastated the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris, one of the components of the “Paris, Banks of the Seine” property. On 5 June 2019, in response to a letter from the World Heritage Centre informing the French State ...

Berlin Exhibition Grounds, Berlin, Germany,As part of its tourism programme, UNESCO World Heritage Centre will host its first stand ever at the International Tourism Exchange (ITB), the world's largest travel and tourism trade fair, which will be held in Berlin, Germany from 12–16 March 2004. UNESCO has hosted workshops at ITB every year since 1999, but this is the ...

,The theme of the 12th International Seminar of Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage (FUUH) is both ambitious and crucial to the future of heritage conservation as well as to the development of communities, cities and civil society at large. The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Concept includes the broader territorial and landscape context and therefore goes far beyond ...

Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK,For the past ten years the Cambridge Heritage Seminars have brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore the most pressing issues in heritage studies today. This year, for its tenth anniversary, coinciding with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of ...

UNESCO headquarter,On the occasion of European Heritage Days, UNESCO will open its doors to the public on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2022, from 10 am to 6 pm. This year’s edition will be marked by the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and will feature a unique exhibition by contemporary painter Sacha Jafri. In addition to opening its emblematic ...

,In the framework of the ‘European Month in Cuba’, the EU-funded UNESCO Transcultura Programme is organizing an event on the management of heritage coastal defence systems in Europe and the Caribbean as a resource for developing the cultural and creative sectors. Fortifications represent a common heritage between Europe and the Caribbean, stemming from their intertwined ...

Uniting the Seas (Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas) in favour of World Heritage Education for Sustainable Development with the support of ICTs The GVRR project aims to link young people engaged in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites and sustainable development issues among the countries located along the Volga River and on the banks of the ...

This special issue of World Heritage is about interlinkages between nature and culture. One of the defining characteristics of the World Heritage Convention is that the governance of both natural and cultural values of Outstanding Universal Value falls under one international instrument, but we have still to harness the full potential it offers to recognize and build on ...

Oc Eo - Ba The archaeological site is located in the southwestwards of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in Oc Eo town, Thoai Son district, An Giang province. It’s 40km away from Long Xuyen city, An Giang province to the northeast and 40km away from Rach Gia city, Kien Giang province to the southwest. This property has about 40 cultural relics of various types of ...

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,a) Urban development pressure; b) New constructions in the area surrounding the property; c) Lack of strategic plans for future development that set out clear strategies for the overall townscape and for the skyline and river front taking into account the townscape characteristics and important views related to the ...

Cellular Jail is situated on South Andaman Island, one of 572 islands forming Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. Inhabited since 2000 years, the islands were occupied by Europeans in the middle of 18th century. Few years later, British established naval base and a penal settlement on Chatham Island which was later shifted Viper Island. The idea of ...

Budapest, Hungary. The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Budapest since June 24, has inscribed today 9 new sites on the World Heritage List. The List now numbers 730 sites of "outstanding universal value" in 125 countries. For the first time, a site from Afghanistan appears on the List. The 9 inscriptions this year include only cultural sites.Simultaneously with its ...

Istanbul, Turkey 17 July—The World Heritage Committee, on the last afternoon of its 40th session which opened on 10 July, inscribed eight new sites on the List: one transnational site (in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan), and others in Canada, Chad, China, Iraq, Iran, Mexico and Sudan. The newly inscribed natural sites are: Hubei Shennongjia (China)—Located in Hubei ...

On 5 July 2023, five new projects in the field of cultural heritage were launched during a kick-off coordination meeting between UNESCO and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Over US$ 10 million will be provided across three years in the framework of the Fund-in-Trust Agreement signed in January 2020 between UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “The ...

Sri Lanka,a) Post tsunami response; b) Need for development and management plan;,Following concerns expressed by the National Commission of Sri Lanka with regard to the construction of an international test cricket stadium in the buffer zone of the property, as well as a port development project in the Bay of Galle, two missions have been undertaken to assess the situation ...

Syrian Arab Republic,a) Poor state of conservation; b) Inappropriate restoration techniques; c) Lack of a buffer zone; d) Lack of a management plan.,Since its inscription on the World Heritage List, the conservation of the Ancient City of Damascus has not been addressed in a comprehensive study and no global conservation actions have been taken. It is urgent to point out ...

Italy,Construction of roads and high voltage power line in the immediate vicinity of the property; Absence of boundaries for the property; Lack of Management Plan that addresses conservation issues, development control, tourism management and future rock art research; Construction of metal walkway.,Following the decision of the World Heritage Committee at its 28th session ...

Morocco,Urban Pressure, Tourism Pressure; Lack of management mechanism (including legislation); Lack of human or financial resources. ,The State Party sent a report to the Secretariat in January 2004 with regard to the decision taken at its 27th session, where the Committee expressed its concern with regard to the state of abandonment and degradation, the lack of ...

Colombia, Armed conflict; Illegal extraction of natural resources; Threats from major infrastructure projects; Lack of control of management agency. ,On 1 February 2013, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report to the World Heritage Centre, as requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session (Saint-Petersburg, 2012). In its Decision 36 COM ...

Panama, Continued and growing presence of cattle; Delayed implementation of the Management Plan for the Special Zone of Marine Protection; Planned construction of a naval base; Absence of clear regulations relating to the property; Commercial and sport fishing; Insufficient management capacity at the property. ,The State Party submitted a state of conservation report on 26 ...