The DBAR ICoE-Potenza Established and Launched Space Archaeo...

On May 14th, 2019, Prof. WANG Xinyuan, Co-Chair of DBAR-Heritage led a delegation to attend the inaugural ceremony of DBAR International Center of Excellence Potenza (ICoE-Potenza) in Italy.

European Young Heritage Professionals Forum to begin in Zada...

28 young heritage professionals with diverse backgrounds varying from ethnomusicology to architecture and visual computing technologies will come together for the European Young Heritage Professionals Forum to addr...

Heritage and Water: experts call for enhanced inter-sectoral...

The panel on ‘Heritage and Water’ during the UNESCO International Water Conference (13-14 May at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris) highlighted the spiritual and cultural significance of water at many heritage sites, ...

Peru sets long-term vision with 18 sites for Tentative List

A year-long process of discussion and collaboration regarding the update to Peru’s Tentative List culminated in April with the unanimous approval of the new proposal that will guide the country’s World Heritage s...

Dire projections by global biodiversity report lead to calls...

Launched at UNESCO in Paris on Monday 6 May, the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services sends an ala...

President of Iraq Barham Salih discusses the revival of cult...

The Unesco Representative to Iraq, Paolo Fontani, met at the Presidential Palace in Baghdad with Ms Maysoon Al Damluji, cultural advisor to the President, to discuss cooperation in the area of culture. The meeting ...

Focus on Gaofen-5 Satellite Image Gives Insight into Global ...

Recently, based on the Directional Polarization Camera (DPC) onboard GF-5 satellite, the first global high-resolution (3.3 km) map of fine-mode aerosol optical depth (AODf) over land has been obtained together by t...

Youth and local communities at the heart of the rebuilding o...

“Protecting biodiversity is as vital as fighting climate ch...

Describing nature’s decline as unprecedented and citing among many indicators, 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (...

Join the World Heritage Volunteers Campaign 2019

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to publish the selected projects for the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Campaign 2019

Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, ...

Since 2016, we have been celebrating African World Heritage Day on 5 May. Proclaimed by the General Conference at its 38th session in 2015, this day was established to raise public awareness, among young people i...

UNESCO marks 20th anniversary of Second Protocol to 1954 Hag...

From 25 to 26 April, UNESCO will host a high level conference, Protecting Cultural Property, International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention, in Geneva, S...

UNESCO solemnly expresses the support of the international c...

Paris, Elysée, 19 April 2019- Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, H.E Lee Byong-hyun, President of the executive Board and H.E Zohour Alaoui, president of the general Conference, accompanied by a delegatio...

International Earth Day 2019: Protect Our Species

International Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22 April to remind us that the Earth and its ecosystems provide us with sustenance, and that we have a collective responsibility to achieve balance among the econ...

Rural Landscapes and Sustainable Development: International ...

As we celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites 2019, with the theme of Rural landscapes, we highlight the value of conserving this heritage formed through long-term, harmonious interaction between humank...

Eleven sites and extensions in Asia, Europe, and South Ameri...

UNESCO’s Executive Board today approved the designation of eight new sites demonstrating the diversity of the planet’s geology as new Geoparks. The Executive Board also approved the extension of three existing Ge...

Fire ravages Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a UNESCO World H...

“Our hearts are broken,” Audrey Azoulay

UNESCO and the German Government signed today an agreement o...

UNESCO and the German Government signed today an agreement to work together for the stabilization, restoration and rehabilitation of the Aghawat Mosque Complex in the Old City of Mosul, as an element to safeguard M...