With the support of international partners and $115 million in funding, the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO recently helped ...

The third Da Nang Asian Film Festival (DANAFF III) concluded not with promotional fanfare, but with international recognition ...

By 2025, all World Heritage site managers will be trained in climate change adaptation strategies, and by 2029 all sites will have a climate adaptation plan – as announced by the Director General of ...

Civil society organizations such as Women in Animation can drive the implementation of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on local, national, regional and international levels and ensure that the concerns ...

World UNESCO to list ceviche, opera as ‘intangible heritage’ By. AFP. Published. December 5, 2023 ...

UNESCO, the Church of England Pensions Board, Greenbank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and WWF call on ...

On 11 July 2025, during its 47 th session in Paris, the World Heritage Committee—acting under the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage—inscribed the ...

How does designation impact a destination? The effects of Unesco's designations are a debated topic. A site being added to the list can be a "kiss of death" and "all too often cures the disease by ...

Under the 1972 UNESCO convention, ratified by both Ukraine and Russia, signatories undertake to “assist in the protection of the listed sites” and are “obliged to refrain from taking any ...

The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific. And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention added 24 new ...