An active governing body is needed to oversee effective management, promotion and compliance for physical heritage sites, ...

Under the “One District, One Cuisine” initiative, at least one cuisine to look out for in each district will be shared on ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreFrom 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The ...

UNESCO member states created the World Press Freedom Prize in 1997. The only U.N. prize awarded to journalists, it is named after Colombian newspaper journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza, who was ...

The minor benefits of UNESCO membership are outweighed by the consequences of U.S. support for an organization that wrongly grants full membership to the Palestinians without recognition of Israel.

A new UNESCO report estimated for the first time that the private, fiscal and social costs of children leaving school early and not gaining basic skills are enormous, adding up to trillions of US ...

Pharrell Williams gestures as speaks after he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Arts, Education and Entrepreneurship at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

Although UNESCO is not participating in these human rights abuses itself, organizations say, a few aspects of the agency’s policies and structure allow abuses to happen: lack of solid mechanisms ...

With these new additions, UNESCO's living heritage list now includes 730 cultural practices spread across 145 countries. Over the past 20 years since its inception, UNESCO has financed more than ...

There are 1,199 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and just 25 are in the United States. Some are areas of natural beauty, while others honor the history of human activity. Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial ...

People taking photographs in front of the Khao Klang Nok monument at Thailand's Si Thep historical site on Sept. 14, 2023—days before its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site sparked an ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has wrapped up its deliberations related to sites that are in danger and began adding new sites on Saturday to its prestigious World Heritage List.