On February 2, 2013, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova paid a visit to Mali. According to UNESCO, the purpose of the [...]

According to Armenian Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan, Armenia will submit an application to have Yerevan’s Blue Mosque added to The [...]

UNESCO has formally recognized a Parsi community for their choice to restore and preserve historic enclaves. Architect Vikas Dilawari, under [...]

UNESCO has recently added 26 new sites to its World Heritage List. In total, five sites were added to the [...]

On 22 March 2012, Palestine deposited with the Director-General its instrument of ratification of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the [...]

As the Titanic shipwreck nears it’s 100th birthday, it also approaches eligibility for protection under the 2001 Unesco Convention on [...]

If you’ve got a month to spare this fall, you might want to check out ICCROM’s Rome-based course, First Aid [...]

The State Department has set aside $79 million in its 2013 budget to fund UNESCO, even though it pulled funding [...]

WikiLeaks, an organization of data warriors led by Julian Assange, has a new and unlikely target: UNESCO. Assange gathered support [...]

The sudden removal of Viennese balls from UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list is the result of a review by an [...]