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Portugal,,Following a letter by the World Heritage Centre of 19 November 2008, which requested information related to NGO reports on infrastructure development, the State Party provided a detailed response which was received by the World Heritage Centre on 19 February 2009. This provides information on a cable car project at the World Heritage property of the Laurisilva of ...
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An Expert Meeting on ‘Outstanding Universal Value of Auschwitz – Historical Identity of Europe and Pars Pro Toto Borders’ was held at the House of the Wannsee Conference (Berlin) on 7 April 2017. Organized by the Polish National Commission, the National Heritage Board of Poland and the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum, the meeting brought together some 30 experts from ...
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Thanks to a contribution of 4,992 USD from the International Assistance World Heritage Fund, the State Party of Albania organized a training workshop for the development of monitoring indicators for the World Heritage property "Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra”. The workshop took place in Berat, Gjirokastra and Tirana between 27 and 29 April 2016.
In 2009, the ...
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Germany,a) Noise pollution and traffic increase;
b) Potential impacts by Rhine crossing project.,The State Party submitted on 19 January 2010 an English version of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and on 8 February 2010 a report that included a draft Statement of Outstanding Universal Value, a Visual Impact Assessment undertaken by the Technical University of ...
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The UNESCO Kathmandu Office has recently created a website on Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha, World Heritage property in Nepal: ‘Lumbini: Past, Present & Future’.
Lumbini, the birthplace of the Lord Buddha, was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1997 because of its Outstanding Universal Value. The values described are that it is ...
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Saint Lucia,Development pressures associated with tourism and housing,A state of conservation report on this property was requested by the World Heritage Committee in Decision 32 COM 7B.40 referred to above, in which, inter alia, the World Heritage Committee noted with concern that development continues to affect the integrity of the property, which if not urgently ...
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Saint Lucia,Development pressures associated with tourism and housing,On 2 February 2010, the World Heritage Centre received the State Party report on the state of conservation of the property. From 20 to 24 March, 2010, a joint World Heritage Centre / IUCN monitoring mission visited the property, as requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session (Sevilla, ...
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Brazil,Threats identified at the time of inscription in 2012:
Absence of an overall management framework for all the component parts of the serial property
Incomplete Management Plan for the property
Lack of details as to how the buffer zone will be protected and managed
No system in place for defining, recording and inventorying the key components of the overall ...
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,African Heritage Sites Facing Climate Change is a series of workshops and capacity-building sessions launched in partnership with the Foundation for the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Rabat. This initiative is aimed at site managers, mentees, experts, representatives of civil society, institutional stakeholders, cultural heritage professionals, and young Africans. ...
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Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany,The UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies at the Brandenburg University of Technology is pleased to host an International Conference on "World Heritage and Cultural Diversity - Challenges for University Education". The event is being co-organized by the German Commission for UNESCO, and the conference patrons are the UNESCO ...
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Belgium,a) Potential impacts of new construction projects
b) Gradual erosion of the attributes that convey the Outstanding Universal Value and consequently threaten the integrity of the property with regards to its overall coherence and originality.,The factors affecting the property, identified by the joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission of March ...
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On 31 October 2016, the Government of Timor-Leste officially deposited its instrument of ratification of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage with the Director-General of UNESCO.
Timor-Leste has become the 193rd State Party to the World Heritage Convention on 31 January 2017, when the Convention entered into force for this ...
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UNESCO, Hall Segur,The photographic exhibition on Moenjodaro revisits one of the world's greatest riverine civilizations, recognized as World Heritage in 1980. While illustrating the great achievements of the UNESCO International Safeguarding Campaign from 1974 -1997 it also focuses on local communities and the future prospect of the archeological site for sustainable ...
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Russian Federation,
Gradual changes to the urban fabric: construction and restoration projects (issue resolved)
Inappropriate urban development (issue resolved)
Major changes to the property’s skyline through the construction of the new Cathedral of the Assumption (issue resolved)
High rise projects (issue resolved)
Lack of appropriate management system (issue ...
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Austria,a) High-rise construction project of Wien-Mitte;
b) High-rise construction project of Vienna Central Train Station. ,At its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), the World Heritage Committee urged the State Party to halt the construction of the 100m high building of the Vienna Central Train Station project, the height of which would protrude above the trees on ...
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Russian Federation,a) Structural integrity of the Church of the Transfiguration;
b) Absence of an integrated management plan that addresses overall management of the World Heritage property;
c) Tourism development pressures affecting the property.,The World Heritage Committee at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006) noted with great concern that the reports provided by the ...
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Manama, Bahrain,IUCN and Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage
Call for application
TABE’A Programme Training Series: Tentative Lists and Nomination preparation for Natural World Heritage sites.
World Heritage Nominations: application of the Statement of Outstanding Universal Value (SoOUV)
7-10 November 2016| Manama, Bahrain
Background
Tabe’a is partnership regional ...
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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 ...
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Germany,Four-lane bridge construction project in the core zone of the World Heritage property,Application of the Reinforced monitoring mechanism at the property since 2007 (31 COM 7A.32)
At the request of the State Party and the city authorities a Reinforced Monitoring Mission to the Dresden Elbe Valley was carried out on 4 and 5 February 2008. The mission was organized, ...
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The overall goal of the Policy on the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention is to assist States Parties, practitioners, institutions, communities and networks, through appropriate guidance, to harness the potential of World Heritage properties and heritage in general, to contribute to sustainable ...
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Azores, Portugal,The main objective of this meeting is to define a scientific framework for the identification and recognition of sites related to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge phenomenon, which may be of outstanding universal value and to define the framework for a serial nomination on the World Heritage List. The outcome of this meeting will contribute to a better ...
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Ottawa, Canada,The meeting - organized with and fully sponsored by Canadian national authorities - was attended by 90 site managers, representatives of Parks Canada and advisory bodies IUCN, ICOMOS, ICCROM as well as a US delegation of cultural and natural heritage experts. During the two day meeting the debate tackled several themes relevant to the daily management of ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,,The monuments of Orkney, dating back to 3000-2000 BC, were inscribed as an outstanding testimony to the cultural achievements of the Neolithic peoples of northern Europe. Their culture flourished for around 500-1000 years at a particularly dynamic time in European pre-history.
The monuments include Maes Howe, a ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,a) Impact of fire at Cowgate;
b) Major development projects, including the Caltongate development. ,In response to the request from the World Heritage Committee at its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), a World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS joint reactive monitoring mission to the property took place in November 2008. Its ...
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With almost 1.2 billion people travelling abroad each year, tourism has become a powerful economic sector, a passport to prosperity, dialogue and peace, and a transformative force improving millions of lives.
Tourism and World Heritage are natural partners. Almost all World Heritage sites are or become tourist destinations-some are among the most iconic places on Earth. ...
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Russian Federation,Changes in the built fabric,On 20 August and 2 September 2007, the World Heritage Centre was informed by representatives of the civil society and NGOs that new construction works, authorised by the President of the Russian World Heritage Committee, started within the boundaries of the property. The World Heritage was also informed that on 29 August 2007 ...
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Tehran University is the first center for higher education in Iran that was founded in 1934 and is one of the oldest universities all around the world. At the moment, it encircles 25 faculties, 9 campuses and 11 research centers. This university is initially established by merging following schools and educational centers in Tehran: Dār al-Fonun, School of Political ...
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UNESCO is closely following plans for a 75-hectare amusement park under discussion near the World Heritage site of Angkor in Cambodia.
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has also received numerous appeals from third parties expressing their concern.
The plenary session of the International Coordinating Committee for Angkor (ICC), held virtually on 26 and 27 January, ...
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Presentation is the explanation of a property and its values to the public (visitors and local people) from established, authoritative information sources; as such it is a largely one-way process of communication.
Interpretation, on the other hand, embraces a much wider concept (in fact presentation is just one element of interpretation) which refers to the full range of ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,development of a golf resort,On 22 Feb 2012, a planning application for the development of a golf resort including an 18-hole championship golf course, clubhouse, golf academy and driving range, 120 bedroom hotel and 75 guest suites at the World Heritage property Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland ...
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United States of America,Threats identified at the time of inscription of the property:
Need to define an area surrounding the property and including its immediate setting, important views and other areas or attributes that are functionally important
Highway 577 crossing the property from north to south
,On 24 November 2015, the State Party submitted a state of ...
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Russian Federation,a) Quality of new design projects in the inscribed zone;
b) High-rise development ;
c) Confusion over definition and extent of inscribed property and its buffer zones.,The State Party did not submit a state of conservation report which was requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 34th session (Brasilia, 2010).
a) Boundary issues
By a letter of ...
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Saint Lucia,Development pressures associated with tourism and housing,On 31 January 2011 the State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property. This report provides an overview of the State Party’s progress in enforcing a moratorium on all residential and hotel developments within the Pitons Management Area (PMA), as requested in the World ...
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Austria,High-rise construction project,At its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), the World Heritage Committee expressed deep concern that the height of the new Kometgründe-Meidling structure would exceed the 60 metres agreed to by the State Party in June 2006, and requested the State Party to immediately halt the project and submit a visual impact study on the ...
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The concept of Integrity is described in the Operational Guidelines paragraphs 87-95. Integrity applies to both natural and cultural properties, and is defined as a measure of the completeness or intactness of the attributes that convey Outstanding Universal Value.
According to the World Heritage Resource Manual ‘Managing Cultural Heritage’ (UNESCO 2013), the key words to ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,,In the past few years, proposals have been put forward for a large scale re-development of an extensive flat area alongside the river Avon, in the centre of the World Heritage property. The area is in the bowl of the valley and thus can be seen from higher parts of the city. The proposals to develop the area have met ...
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Kyiv, Ukraine,An international seminar and network meeting of site managers of World Heritage properties of religious interest was held in Kyiv, Ukraine from 31 October to 1 November 2018 to discuss ‘Living Religious World Heritage: Participatory Management and Sustainable Use.’
World Heritage properties such as religious and sacred sites, constitute one of the largest ...
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Portugal,,On 8 February 2012, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report that responded to the recommendations of the ICOMOS advisory mission invited by the State Party to consider the potential impact of the Foz Tua Hydro-electric Dam Project. The mission was carried out from 4 to 6 April 2011. By that time, planning for the Foz Tua Hydro-electric Dam ...
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Attributes, more commonly called features in the case of natural properties, are those elements, processes or features that convey and make manifest the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of a property. Identification and understanding of their interrelationships are crucial to understanding OUV and therefore to ensuring appropriate protection and management mechanisms.
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Reactive Monitoring is the reporting by the Secretariat, other sectors of UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the Committee on the state of conservation of specific World Heritage properties that are under threat. To this end, the States Parties shall submit specific reports and impact studies each time exceptional circumstances occur or work is undertaken which may have an ...
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Read our newsletter to learn about our major accomplishments, including new services that will help improve marine protection efforts around the globe. Additionally, this year we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
Mission of the World Heritage Marine Programme
Launched in 2005, the mission of the World Heritage Marine Programme is to ...
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The World Heritage Centre expresses its concern over on-going bushfires in and around the Gondwana rainforests in Australia and offers its solidarity to the people affected.
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has been receiving many expressions of concern from the media and civil society over the possible impact of bushfires on the World Heritage property, “Gondwana ...
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Corfu, Greece,The main objective of the meeting its to discuss the results of the First Cycle of the Periodic Reporting exercise for the Mediterranean and South-Eastern subregions in relation to the protection and management of World Heritage properties, according to the decisions taken by the World Heritage Committee at its 31st session in July 2007 (31 COM 11A.1 and 31 ...
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Salle des Pas Perdus, UNESCO HQ, Paris,The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines and the Historic Centre of Krakow are among the first twelve sites inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. Poland currently has fourteen sites inscribed on the List, and has worked for decades at protecting not only these places, but other sites of outstanding universal ...
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The Brooklyn Bridge is a large-scale steel and stone cable-stayed suspension bridge with a central span of 1,595 feet (486m) and a toal length of 5,989 Feet (1,25m). Completed in 1883, it spans the East River to connect the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is owned, operated, and maintained by the City of New York’s Department of Transportation, and ...
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France,Revision of the ZPPAUP weakening the legal protection of the property,In application of the decision taken during its 34th session by the World Heritage Committee (Brasilia, 2010), the State Party submitted a report on 31 January 2012.
In response to the first request by the Committee to review the decision concerning the revision of the ZPPAUP (Architectural, Urban ...
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The 1972 World Heritage Convention is truly unique. It is the only legal instrument conceived to protect both cultural and natural heritage, based on the principle of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) – the value of a site that is irreplaceable and must be protected for the future.
Each year, during its annual session, the World Heritage Committee adds new sites to the ...
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A practical guide on climate change adaptation for natural World Heritage sites has been published in the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage Paper Series, thanks to the generous support of the Netherlands Funds-in-Trust and the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment.
Climate change has become more prominent as a management ...
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Russian Federation,a) Gradual changes to the urban fabric: construction and restoration projects
b) Inappropriate urban development
c) Major changes to the property’s skyline through the construction of the new Cathedral of the Assumption
d) High rise projects,No report has been submitted by the State Party. An ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission visited the property ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,Urban development projects:
a) Lack of overall management of new developments;
b) Lack of analysis and description of the townscape characteristics relevant to the Outstanding Universal Value of the property and important views related to the property and its buffer zone;
c) Lack of clearly established maximum heights ...
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,Within the framework of the World Heritage Centre Thematic Programme, Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS), the University of Tübingen and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre have organized the International meeting of Experts "Human Origin Sites in Eurasia and the World Heritage Convention" at the University of Tübingen, Germany ...
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France,Spain,a) Impacts of the Gavarnie Festival (France);
b) insufficient support for agroastoralism;
c) inefficient transboundary cooperation.,The States Parties of France and Spain submitted two separate state of conservation reports on 1 February 2010, in relation to the issues raised in Decision 33 COM 7B.40, on (a) transboundary management arrangements, (b) increased ...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Pleasance Housing proposal (housing development in the buffer zone)
Proposed extension of the Hyndford Quarry
,On 10 December 2015, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report (available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/429/documents), which addresses progress made in the implementation of World Heritage ...
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Andorra,Delay in the finalization of the Management Plan and completion of the entomological inventory for the property,On 1 February 2012, in application of the decision taken at its 34th session (Brasilia, 2010) by the World Heritage Committee, the State Party submitted three examples of the revised Management Plan concerning the property, in Catalan and French, as well ...
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China,The proposed high-rise buildings were threatening to affect the visual integrity of the property (issue resolved),The World Heritage Committee in Decision 33 COM 7B.67 noted, inter alia, the apparent inadequacy of the current management system and requested the State Party to develop a draft Statement of Outstanding Universal Value and appropriate legal and planning ...
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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.
By adopting the Global Strategy, the World Heritage Committee wanted to broaden the definition of World Heritage to better ...
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France,,In February 2012, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN were informed of the granting by the State Party of a prospection permit for liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons adjacent to the property. Following a letter from the World Heritage Centre regarding this issue, the State Party provided the World Heritage Centre with an information note on 30 March 2012 concerning the ...
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Austria,a) High-rise construction project of Central Vienna;
b) High-rise construction project of Vienna Central Train Station. ,In response to the decisions by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session in 2009, the State Party provided the requested Visual Impact Study (VIS) for the UNESCO World Heritage Sites “Historic Centre of Vienna” and “Palace and Gardens of ...
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Austria,a) High-rise construction project of Central Vienna;
b) High-rise construction project of Vienna Central Train Station. ,In response to the decisions by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session in 2009, the State Party provided the requested Visual Impact Study (VIS) for the UNESCO World Heritage Sites “Historic Centre of Vienna” and “Palace and Gardens of ...
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Spain,
Project to construct a new bridge over the river Rio Adajo (issue resolved)
Urban pressure
,On 1 February 2004, the World Heritage Centre received a report from the State Party, in which it is stressed that all local legal requirements have been followed in order to carry out the project for the refurbishment of the square, the demolition of buildings and their ...
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Egypt,a) Rise in the water table;
b) Impact on structures due to earth trembling and other forms of damage likely to result from the use of heavy earth-moving equipment;
c) Lack of conservation plan, defining short-, medium-, and long-term objectives and establishing technical parameters (materials, techniques, etc);
d) Need for a management plan, to include research, ...
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Indonesia,a) Ineffectual legal and institutional framework for the management and protection of the property;
b) Impacts on the stone of Borobudur Temple from the use of epoxy resin, steam cleaning and water repellants.,The Borobudur Temple Compounds was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. At its 31st session (Christchurch, 2007), the World Heritage Committee ...
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The standard list of threats/factors affecting the Outstanding Universal Value of World Heritage properties consists of a series of 14 primary factors, encompassing each a number of secondary factors.
The 14 primary factors are:
Buildings and Development
Transportation Infrastructure
Utilities or Service Infrastructure
Pollution
Biological resource ...
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Inscription refers to the act of including or inscribing a property in the World Heritage List. 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 ...
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"Regardless of political positioning, the public is deeply concerned about the security situation in Aleppo and the safety of its citizens during the civil conflict. Aleppo, the Milennial City of Art and History, Is now in Danger, and its Cultural heritage of outstanding universal value is now under threat.
On behalf of the World Heritage Committee, while expressing ...
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On 15 May 2014, the Government of the Bahamas officially deposited with the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, its instrument of ratification for the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
The World Heritage Convention will enter into force for the Bahamas on 15 August 2014, making the island country the 191st State Party to ...
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The World Heritage Centre expresses concerns over on-going bushfires at Fraser Island World Heritage area in Australia, the largest sand island in the world, and solidarity with the people affected by the blaze.
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has been receiving expressions of concern over the possible impact of the bushfire on the World Heritage property “Fraser Island”. ...
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Training Workshop for Strengthening the Protection and Management of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
Quang Binh, Viet Nam,The objective of the workshop is to raise the awareness of the local people and local authorities on the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage site, the World Heritage Convention, and the existing protection framework (such as national laws and institutions) to strengthen the protection and management framework of the World Heritage site. ...
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UNESCO Headquarter, Paris,On the occasion of the 17th session of the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention (23-28 October 2009), the World Heritage Centre, in cooperation with the Advisory Bodies, organized an Orientation session for Committee members and all States Parties.
This session was held on Tuesday 27 October 2009 at the UNESCO ...
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UNESCO has welcomed confirmation from French-based oil and gas corporation Total that it will refrain from prospecting or exploiting oil and gas in natural sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, saying this was an encouraging sign for World Heritage conservation.
In a letter sent earlier this month to UNESCO, Total’s Directeur delegue, Relations avec les ONG et la ...
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The Solomon Islands host a chain of coral atolls in the western Pacific, about 1800 kilometers northeast of Australia. The southernmost island in the group is Rennell Island. At 86 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide, Rennell is the largest raised coral atoll in the world. East Rennell, on the southern end of Rennell Island, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in ...
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Marine science experts from around the world gathered at UNESCO’s Headquarters in a two-day working meeting to explore possible new marine World Heritage sites in the Arctic. Experts discussed unique and exceptional Arctic features that could potentially merit inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list for their nature conservation values.
The Arctic is home to ...
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In the framework of the “UNESCO Documentation and Advisory Services” (UDAS) project, UNESCO Beirut launched on 8 May 2017 a Third Consultation Workshop for “Baalbek and Tyre Archaeological Project” (BTAP). The workshop was organized under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) and the Council for ...
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The Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre participates in the international scientific meeting on the “Heritage Impact Assessment: A Tool for the Protection and Safeguarding of World Heritage”
On 26 November 2020, the Foundation for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Rabat, in partnership with the Ministry Of Youth Culture And Sports and UNESCO, organised ...
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China, a) Proposed development of network of dams;
b) Large copper mine adjacent to property;
c) Boundary modifications;
d) Future tourism development;
e) Encroachment.
,On 29 January 2010 a report on the state of conservation of the property was submitted by the State Party. This responds to the requests made by the World Heritage Committee in its Decision 32 ...
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Türkiye,a) Continued degradation of the vernacular architecture within the protected zones (particularly Ottoman-period timber houses in the Zeyrek and Süleymaniye core areas);
b) Quality of repairs and reconstruction of the Roman and Byzantine Walls and associated palace structures, including Tekfur Saray and the "Anemas Dungeon" (Blachernae Palace);
c) Uncontrolled ...
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Lithuania,
Limited financial resources (issue resolved)
Need for a comprehensive rehabilitation programme (issue resolved)
Rehabilitation and restoration programme (issue resolved)
Urgent restoration and infrastructural upgrading (issue resolved)
Revitalisation programme
High rise buildings located in vicinity of Vilnius Historic Centre which have an impact on the visual ...