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[14.12.2001]- DESCRIPTION OF SITES NEWLY INSCRIBED ON WORLD HERITAGE LIST
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Helsinki since December 11, has added 31 sites to the World Heritage List. The List now numbers 721 sites of “outstanding universal value” in 124 countries. Sites in Botswana and Israel appear on the List for the first time. (...)Continue

[14.12.2001]- 31 NEW SITES ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Helsinki since December 11, has inscribed 31 new sites on the World Heritage List. The List now numbers 721 sites of “outstanding universal value” in 124 countries. For the first time, sites in Botswana and Israel appear on the List. (...)Continue

[14.12.2001]- UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL SAYS THE PURSUIT OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS AN IMPERATIVE NOT AN OPTION
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koďchiro Matsuura, expressed his concern at the worsening of the situation in the Middle East at last night's ceremony to award the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2001 to the two winners, Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng (Uganda) and the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva (Israel). (...)Continue

[13.12.2001]- VIENNA, PROVINS AND SAMARKAND: NEW SITES ADDED TO UNESCO’S WORLD HERITAGE LIST
Samarkand (Uzbekistan), the historic centres of Vienna (Austria) and of Goiás (Brazil), the mining area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun (Sweden) and the medieval town of Provins (France), along with five other sites, today joined the ranks of the sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. (...)Continue

[13.12.2001]- SIX NATURAL SITES AND TWO CULTURAL SITES ADDED TO UNESCO’S WORLD HERITAGE LIST
The island of Fernando de Noronha and the atoll das Rocas (Brazil), the Dorset and East Devon Coast (United Kingdom) and the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn region (Switzerland) today joined the ranks of the sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. In total, six natural sites were added to the List this year. (...)Continue

[13.12.2001]- TWO NEW SITES INSCRIBED ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST IN DANGER
Two sites, the rice terraces of the Philippine cordilleras, and Abu Mena in Egypt, were today inscribed on the World Heritage List In Danger by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, which has been meeting in Helsinki since December 11 under the chair of Henrik Lilius of Finland. (...)Continue

[7.12.2001]- UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
On the occasion of Human Rights Day, celebrated December 10, UNESCO Director-General Koďchiro Matsuura has issued a message recalling that "respect for human rights is an indispensable condition for peace, security, stability and democracy in the world and is the ultimate goal of economic, political, social and cultural development." (...)Continue

[7.12.2001]- UNITED NATIONS URGED TO INCLUDE OCEANS AND COASTS AT WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The goals of next year's World Summit on Sustainable Development can only be met if effective action to protect ocean and coastal areas is implemented-and soon. This conclusion was reached at a five-day meeting of over 400 coastal and ocean experts(...)Continue

[7.12.2001]- WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE TO ANNOUNCE NEW WORLD HERITAGE SITES NEXT WEEK IN FINLAND
A number of new sites - cultural, natural and mixed - will be added to the List on December 14 at the 25th annual session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee which takes place in Helsinki, Finland, this year.(...)Continue

[6.12.2001]- DIRECTOR-GENERAL EXPRESSES INDIGNATION AT MURDER OF HAITIAN JOURNALIST BRIGNOL LINDOR
UNESCO Director-General Koďchiro Matsuura has expressed indignation at news of the assassination, on Monday, of Haitian journalist, Brignol Lindor, news director of Radio Eco 2000(...)Continue

[3.12.2001]- A SEA OF TROUBLES
Ministers and experts on the oceans and coastal zones representing more than 55 countries are meeting in Paris this week to define the challenges and urgent decisions needed to protect the world's oceans and coasts(...)Continue