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Hace 2 días · The organization's work on heritage led to the adoption, in 1972, of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [citation needed] The World Heritage Committee was established in 1976 and the first sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978.
Hace 2 días · The World Heritage convention's counterpart, The World Heritage Committee, is the body responsible for the practical implementation of the convention as well as managing and deciding how to use the World Heritage Fund.
Hace 2 días · In 1972 UNESCO sponsored an international agreement to establish a World Heritage List of cultural sites and natural areas that would enjoy government protection. The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage .
- The acronym UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It denotes the specialized agency of the United Nat...
- UNESCO was originally founded to focus on rebuilding schools, libraries, and museums that had been destroyed in Europe during World War II. Since t...
- UNESCO gets its funding from contributions by member states, voluntary contributions, fundraising, and other, smaller sources of funding. Funding s...
- Since UNESCO’s inception, its definition of literacy has expanded from traditional reading and writing skills to also include concepts of digital l...
Hace 6 horas · The first inscriptions on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register were made in 1997. By creating a compendium of the world’s documentary heritage, including manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archive holdings, the program aims to promote the exchange of information among experts and raise resources for the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of ...
Hace 3 días · The Wadden Sea is the largest tidal flats system in the world, where natural processes proceed largely undisturbed. It extends along the coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. For its globally unique geological and ecological values the Wadden Sea is listed by UNESCO as World Heritage.
Hace 2 días · In the framework of the World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn (June 2015) and subsequent adoption of the Joint Statement by the Chairpersons of the six UNESCO Cultural Conventions Committees, the members of the Bureaus agreed to encourage the Director-General of UNESCO to organize a meeting with the six Chairpersons during the fourth session of the Subsidiary Committee to the Meeting of ...
Hace 2 días · Rules of Procedure of the General Conference. 1. The Headquarters Committee shall consist of twenty-four members elected for four years, half of whom shall be replaced at each session of the General Conference on the recommendation of the Nominations Committee. The geographical distribution of seats shall reflect that of the Executive Board.
