[28.06.2002] -
World Heritage Committee gives new impetus to protection of
endangered sites
Budapest, June 28 – UNESCO's World Heritage Committee today
adopted the Budapest Declaration, marking the 30th anniversary
of the World Heritage Convention (1972) and recognizing the
need "to ensure that (the Convention) applies to heritage in
all its diversity" and the necessity for "effective conservation"
of World Heritage properties.(...)Continue
[27.06.2002] -
NINE NEW SITES ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST - Budapest
- UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting here for its 26th
session, chaired by the Hungarian Tamas Fejerdy, today added 9
new sites to the World Heritage List, bringing the total to 730
cultural, natural and mixed sites of "outstanding universal
value," including for the first time a site in Afghanistan.(...)Continue
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[25.06.2002] -
GUINEAN STORYTELLER NAMED UNESCO ARTIST
FOR PEACE Paris - Guinean singer and griot (traditional
storyteller) Sayon Camara was named a UNESCO Artist for Peace
by the Organization's Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura
on Friday, June 21.(...)Continue
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[13.06.2002] - UNESCO
URGES THE AMERICAS TO JOIN THE UNDERWATER HERITAGE CONVENTION
- Paris - The remains of more than three million ships and their
cargoes are thought to lie beneath the world's oceans. Historical
monuments such as the lighthouse in Alexandria (Egypt) and whole
towns such as Port Royal (Jamaica) also lie at the bottom of the
oceans.(...)Continue
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[06.06.2002] - THE
CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL (INDIA) AWARDED THE 2002 UNESCO PRIZE FOR
PEACE EDUCATION - UNESCO Director-General
Koïchiro Matsuura awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
to the City Montessori School (India) on June 5 following its
recommendation by the prize's international jury.(...)Continue
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[05.06.2002] - ALICIA
ALONSO NAMED UNESCO GOODWILL AMBASSADOR - Cuban ballerina
and choreographer Alicia Alonso will be appointed a UNESCO Goodwill
Ambassador for her "outstanding contribution to the development,
preservation and popularization of classical dance" and for
her "devotion to the art-form, through which she has promoted
the ideals of UNESCO and the fellowship of the world's peoples
and cultures."(...)Continue
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[05.06.2002] - Africa’s
hidden groundwater resources -
Solutions
to resolve the world’s water crisis may lay hidden underground.
More than half the world’s population already depends on groundwater
that is pumped from the pore spaces of rock formations, known
as aquifers, which lie hidden below the Earth’s surface. These
formations can span thousands of kilometres and contain enough
water to satisfy all of humanity’s demands for many decades. (...)Continue
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