- Enhancing engagement in the World Heritage Reactive Monitoring process UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and IUCN, under the World Heritage Leadership Programme, are pleased to announce that the 7th edition of the World Heritage Site...
- African Heritage Sites Facing Climate Change is a series of workshops and capacity-building sessions launched in partnership with the Foundation for the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Rabat. This initiative is aimed at site...
- UNESCO, in collaboration with the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the Greek GEO Office (GGO), will launch a new report entitled Climate Change in Mediterranean World Heritage Cities during a high-level online event to be held on 30...
- The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce the selected projects of the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) 2025 Campaign, under the theme of ‘World Heritage Volunteers 2025 - Working on the Future'. 89 action camp...
- From 26 to 28 May 2025, a landmark workshop was held at UNESCO Headquarters to reshape the engagement of Indigenous Peoples within the framework of the World Heritage Convention. Co-designed and co-led by the International Indigenous...
- To enhance the capacity of professionals from the Directorate of Antiquities and Archaeology, Sindh, in safeguarding one of Pakistan's World Heritage Sites - Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta, UNESCO organized a three-day...
- World Heritage site managers and archive specialists throughout South-East Asia are benefitting from a series of capstone activities under the "Safeguarding World Heritage Site Archives” JFIT project, developed in collaboration...
- On 30 April 2025, managers from the 51 UNESCO World Heritage marine sites convened online with experts from UNESCO to review the results of UNESCO's pioneering environmental DNA (eDNA) expeditions initiative and to exchange...
- UNESCO hosted the International Expert Conference on the Sacred City of Anuradhapura at its Headquarters on 1 April 2025, bringing together over 400 in-person and online participants, including international heritage experts, government...
- UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 1-8 July 2025 - "World Heritage in an interconnected world: Leveraging digital technologies and innovative approaches” As an integral part of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, in the...
- As part of the ongoing process of revising the World Heritage Capacity-Building Strategy (WHCBS), the World Heritage Centre and ICCROM convened a Reference Group meeting on 27 March 2025. This meeting brought together the World Heritage...
- UNESCO expresses its solidarity with the firefighters and the authorities of the Republic of Korea who have been facing unprecedented fires in recent days. In view of the heavy human toll, the Organisation also extends its most sincere...
- The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples (UNVFIP) has extended its mandate to support the participation of Indigenous Peoples' representatives in the World Heritage Committee, starting with the 47th session to be...