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  • 20.06.13

    Director-General to Celebrate Heritage, Culture and Development in Viet Nam

  • 18.06.13

    African Culture Ministers call for balancing heritage conservation and social and economic development

  • 18.06.13

    Director-General pays official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia on the occasion of the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee

  • 18.06.13

    World Heritage Committee inscribes East Rennell on the List of World Heritage in Danger

  • 17.06.13

    African ministers concerned by the region’s World Heritage sites

  • 17.06.13

    IHP-HELP Centre in Dundee launches UN Watercourses Convention interactive learning website

  • 17.06.13

    World Heritage Committee removes the Iranian World Heritage site of Bam and its Cultural Landscape from danger listing

  • 16.06.13

    Important Khmer statues returned to Cambodia during opening of World Heritage meeting in Phnom Penh

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Live Webcast

17 - 27 June 2013 

09:00 am - 12:30 pm / 02:30 pm - 07:00 pm (GMT +7)

  • 37th session of the World Heritage Committee - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

EVENTS

 
  • World Heritage Committee 2013

  • 10th Anniversary of 2003 Convention

  • World Day to Combat Desertification 2013


  • All  |  Major | Cultural | in Paris

    • Series of three training workshops on gender-sensitive media content for Algerian journalists
      Alger, Algeria, 10-25 June 2013
    • Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage
      Chengdu, China, 14-16 June 2013
    • Governing Complex Education Systems: Third Thematic Conference
      UNESCO Paris, France, 17-18 June 2013
    • The Golden Nights – Panorama 2013
      UNESCO Paris, France, 17-19 June 2013
    • Science and Engineering Fair in Nigeria
      Nsukka, Nigeria, 17-21 June 2013
    • Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventorying for the Pacific
      Chengdu, China, 17-23 June 2013
    • 37th session of the World Heritage Committee
      Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 17-27 June 2013
    • 11th Meeting of the International Advisory Committee for the Memory of the World Programme
      Gwangju City, Republic of Korea, 18-21 June 2013
    • 20th Session of the International Bioethics Committee
      Seoul, Republic of Korea, 19-21 June 2013

    Publications

    • World Heritage - N° 67

      World Heritage and Best Practices

    • Intangible Cultural Heritage Leaflet of Inscribed Elements (Presentation)

      Intangible Cultural Heritage (Leaflet - PDF)

    • Memory of the World

      The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day

    • General History of Africa

      8 volumes (Abridged edition)
      Special offer until 25 June 2013

    HIGHLIGHTS

    • Your 1% Counts for Creativity

      Your 1% Counts for Creativity

    • 8th Youth Forum: more action, exchange and involvement

      8th Youth Forum: more action, exchange and involvement

    • Team Levar wins Fly Your Ideas challenge with innovative solution

      Team Levar wins Fly Your Ideas challenge with innovative solution


    Renewing UNESCO
    • UNESCO and Italy launch new cooperation to restore and conserve cultural heritage in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

    • Italy Grants US$ 1.2 Million for the Expansion of Educational Radio and TV (ERTV) Production and Broadcast Capacities for Distance Education in Afghanistan

    • The Saudi Committee grants USD 2.9 million to education in Palestine

    • UNESCO Director-General Statement on US funding cut


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