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Endangered heritage in Ukraine: UNESCO reinforces protective...
We must safeguard the cultural heritage in Ukraine, as a testimony of the past but also as a catalyst for peace and cohesion for the future, which the international community has a duty to protect and preserve.
04/022022 -
UNESCO calls for proposals for the 2022 Silk Roads Youth Res...
UNESCO calls on young women and men under the age of 35 to apply for the 2022 Silk Roads Youth Research Grant. The grant aims to mobilize young researchers for further study of the Silk Roads shared heritage. Twelv...
03/302022 -
Biodiversity conventions call for shared objectives to halt ...
The Secretariats of the world’s eight major biodiversity-related Conventions, including the World Heritage Convention, call for an inclusive post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to halt nature loss and deliver...
03/232022 -
UNESCO sends reactive monitoring mission to Great Barrier Re...
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) will undertake a mission to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from 21 to 30 March 2022 to assess its state of conservation and...
03/212022 -
Ukraine: UNESCO statement following the adoption of the UN G...
Following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Resolution on Aggression against Ukraine, and in light of the devastating escalation of violence, UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in ...
03/142022 -
Extension of Deadline: Join the World Heritage Volunteers 20...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the Call for Projects for the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) Campaign 2022 ‘Resilience and Re-mobilization towards World Heritage’.
03/012022 -
Chinese Researchers Update Lunar Chronology Model
The photo shows the sampling sites on the lunar surface. (Provided by the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
03/012022 -
Online Webinar on Earth Observation and Data Science for Cul...
On December 15-16, the International Webinsar “Earth Observation and Data Science for Cultural Heritage”, co-hosted by International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the auspic...
01/222022 -
Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage visited HIST
Yunfei Qiao, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH), and more than 10 fellows from the CACH visited HIST on December 7. The delegates visited the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Sta...
01/202022 -
Yemen: Joint statement by OHCHR and UNESCO on two detained s...
The Director General of UNESCO, Ms Audrey Azoulay, and Ms Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, continue to be deeply concerned for the well-being of two of their staff members who were detained...
01/122022 -
China Unveils First Images Taken by Satellite SDGSAT-1
A group of images taken by Chinese satellite SDGSAT-1 to help meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were unveiled in Beijing on Monday.
01/112022 -
2021 Annual Reports on Global Ecosystem and Environment Obse...
China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) released 2021 annual report series on November 26 to evaluate the latest development trend of global ecosystem and environment.
01/112022 -
UNESCO and ICCROM launch training initiative strengthening m...
On 6 December 2021, UNESCO and ICCROM launched the first edition of their joint training initiative “Improving Management Effectiveness in African World Heritage properties (2021-22)” targeting 25 African countri...
01/062022 -
Chinese Scientist Invited as Member of ISC Global Commission...
According to an announcement of the International Science Council (ISC) , the Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability was launched on December 9 to press the reset button on efforts to accelerate...
12/232021 -
COP26 UN Climate Change Conference: progress for UNESCO natu...
The COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference has served as a venue to announce pivotal pledges that will support increased protection of natural World Heritage.
11/152021 -
China Launches Satellite for UN Sustainable Development Goal...
China launched a scientific satellite that will help nations meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A Long March-6 carrier rocket sent it to orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Friday.
11/082021 -
China Releases Global Dataset of 30-m Cropping Intensity
The CropWatch team of the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) releases the world's first 30-meter resolution global cropping intensity dataset (GCI30)
11/012021 -
Kunming declaration paves way for global biodiversity negoti...
Following the high-level segment attended by several Heads of States, Parties to the CBD adopted the Kunming Declaration to keep the political momentum of the negotiations delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The new ...
10/262021
