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State of conservation of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Over the last several months,the World Heritage Centre has been receiving numerous messages from citizens and NGOs expressing their concern regarding ...

World Heritage Committee announces 2016 meeting in Istanbul, 24 new sites inscribed in Bonn

The World Heritage Committee ended its meeting today announcing it will hold its next session in Istanbul, Turkey, from 10 to 20 July 2016. During ...

Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, UK and USA inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

Sunday, 5 July 2015

The World Heritage Committee this morning approved the inscription of five cultural sites on World Heritage List: Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage ...

Trauma surgeons and pop-up clinics

	World Heritage Committee opens with an appeal to protect cultural heritages sites targeted for destruction Bonn (Germany) - An appeal for the international community to counter the new threat of violent extremism and cultural cleansing was issued at the ... Sunday, 28 June 2015
	World Heritage Committee to meet in Bonn 28 June to 8 July The World Heritage Committee will examine proposals to inscribe 37 properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage List when it meets at the international ... Friday, 5 June 2015
	Bamako conference urges emergency action to safeguard manuscripts Storage conditions of ancient manuscripts smuggled out of Timbuktu to Bamako in 2012 must be improved rapidly to avoid decay, concluded participants ... Friday, 30 January 2015