Online Training supports African countries to develop nomination dossiers
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2181
On the 1st of October, the second online World Heritage Nomination workshop, for Anglophone and Francophone countries, was officially closed by the Director of the World Heritage Centre. The training examined the challenges and strengths of nomination dossiers for 12 countries from the African Region, namely Benin, Cameroon, Côte-d'Ivoire, Gabon, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Considering the context of COVID-19 pandemic, the African World Heritage Fund ...
Birds connect our ecosystems. People connect to protect them
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Migratory birds are part of our shared natural World Heritage. They depend on critical breeding, staging and wintering sites along major flyways which often span several continents. Two of the world's largest migratory bird stop-over areas, Wadden Sea and Banc d'Arguin National Park were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2009 and 1989 respectively. This World Migratory Bird Day, we celebrate the birds that connect our cultures and the people all over the world who ...
Article ALECSO supports Comoros efforts to safeguard cultural heritage
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International experts from the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) led an online meeting on the theme "Safeguarding the cultural heritage of Comoros" for government stakeholders in Comoros on 29 September 2020. The meeting was organized in close collaboration with the Direction General for Arts and Culture of Comoros and reinforced existing UNESCO projects underway in Comoros for the preparation of a first nomination file for World Heritage, a ...
Experts call for inclusive and regenerative tourism to build back stronger post-COVID-19
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Global strategy needed in ?ewatershed' moment to steer away from unsustainable tourism, stress experts at UNESCO debate.
The online debate ?eCulture, Tourism and COVID-19: Recovery, Resiliency and Rejuvenation' took place on 28 September and highlighted the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry and the crippling effect it is having on many World Heritage sites, intangible cultural heritage practices, cultural activities and institutions, as well as their ...
Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting launched for Asia and the Pacific region
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The Director of the World Heritage Centre, Dr Mechtild Rössler, launches the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the region of Asia and the Pacific via a video message addressed to the National Focal Points
One of the two main monitoring mechanisms within the framework of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, alongside Reactive Monitoring, the Periodic Reporting exercise is a statutory requirement under the Convention, whereby all States Parties are asked to provide up-to-date ...
Global Debate: 'Culture, Tourism and COVID-19: Recovery, Resiliency and Rejuvenation', 28 September 2020
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The ?eCulture, Tourism and COVID-19: Recovery, Resiliency and Rejuvenation' global debate takes place on 28 September, 2020, 13.30-15.00 CET. The debate is organized by UNESCO, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM).
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'Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention' now available in Arabic
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The Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention set forth the procedures for the protection and conservation of World Heritage properties, the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, the granting of International Assistance under the World Heritage Fund, and the mobilization of national and international support in favor of the Convention.
They were revised in 2019 by the World Heritage Committee ...
Strengthening collaboration and communication with the AWHF
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2173
In the framework of the new communication strategy with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), the World Heritage Centre (WHC), the Africa and Arab State units, and the AWHF held an online quarterly meeting on 22 September 2020.
The AWHF presented its Work plan for the 16 activities (from now until the beginning of 2021) including Online Nomination Training for African Countries, Training on the Desired State of Conservation for the Removal of the Property from the List of World Heritage ...
Bridging the Past and Future through Built Heritage, 3rd UNESCO ResiliArt Lebanon debate, 24 September
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UNESCO will host the last of three ResiliArt online debates dedicated to Lebanon, ResiliArt Lebanon: Bridging the Past and Future through Built Heritage, on 24 September, from 6 pm to 7.30 pm (CET). It will bring together experts and actors in the field of built heritage to discuss the impact of the 4 August blast on the architectural and urban heritage of Beirut, and ways to implement a comprehensive approach to urban recovery that integrates cultural heritage protection and ...
UNESCO condemns the murder of two guards at Okapi Wildlife Reserve
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, strongly condemned the killing of two employees of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) on 17 September 2020 at the Adusa post of the entrance to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a property inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
"In a global context already weakened by a health crisis linked to COVID-19, these facts recall the recent tragic events that claimed the ...
