Egypt
- Egypt's Four Year Membership Of The Unesco Committee Expired
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During the eighteenth session of the General Assembly the World Heritage Convention, which took place during the General Conference of UNESCO from 7- 9 November, Egypt and Jordan concluded their four-year-long membership...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- World Heritage Newsletter 50
http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_news_50_en.pdfThe World Heritage Committee's newsletter following the 29th session in July, gives details of sites added to and removed from their list of world heritage in danger. Amongst the additions is the...
- Wadi Al-hitan To Be On World Heritage List
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-07-08T160303Z_01_L08370310_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-SITES-DC.XML "Some of the world's deepest Norwegian fjords and a fossil-strewn Egyptian desert are set to join...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...
Egypt
Forthcoming Session of the World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185
"The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention . . . . The essential functions of the Committee are to: (i) identify, on the basis of nominations submitted by States Parties, cultural and natural properties of outstanding universal value which are to be protected under the Convention and to list those properties on the World Heritage List; (ii) monitor the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, in liaison with the States Parties; decide which properties included in the World Heritage List are to be inscribed on or removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger; and decide whether a property may be deleted from the World Heritage List; and (iii) examine requests for International Assistance from the World Heritage Fund."
"The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention . . . . The essential functions of the Committee are to: (i) identify, on the basis of nominations submitted by States Parties, cultural and natural properties of outstanding universal value which are to be protected under the Convention and to list those properties on the World Heritage List; (ii) monitor the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, in liaison with the States Parties; decide which properties included in the World Heritage List are to be inscribed on or removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger; and decide whether a property may be deleted from the World Heritage List; and (iii) examine requests for International Assistance from the World Heritage Fund."
Egypt is one of the current members of the Comittee. To see which Egyptian sites are listed on the World Heritage List, go to:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/eg
To find out more about the World Heritage List and its purpose, go to:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/
- Egypt's Four Year Membership Of The Unesco Committee Expired
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During the eighteenth session of the General Assembly the World Heritage Convention, which took place during the General Conference of UNESCO from 7- 9 November, Egypt and Jordan concluded their four-year-long membership...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- World Heritage Newsletter 50
http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_news_50_en.pdfThe World Heritage Committee's newsletter following the 29th session in July, gives details of sites added to and removed from their list of world heritage in danger. Amongst the additions is the...
- Wadi Al-hitan To Be On World Heritage List
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-07-08T160303Z_01_L08370310_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-SITES-DC.XML "Some of the world's deepest Norwegian fjords and a fossil-strewn Egyptian desert are set to join...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...