The implementation of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators was officially launched in Cabo Verde during a kick-off workshop ...

The Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions (BLG), including the World Heritage Convention, convened at the ...

UNESCO has consistently stressed that forced evictions are unacceptable and incompatible with international human rights law ...

Global and local contributions" reveals 2,260 living sites where people and nature coexist, from Dja to Greenland, shaped by ...

The UNESCO Category 2 Centre Wildlife Institute of India (WII-C2C) for World Natural Heritage Management and Training for the ...

In February 2026, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a major assessment ...

Registration for the 48th session will only be possible on this official webpage. No other channel, link or registration form should be used. Note that UNESCO does not charge any fee during the ...

A Tentative List is an inventory of those sites which each State Party intends to consider for nomination. The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its ...

Celebrated every year on 5 May, African World Heritage Day was proclaimed in 2015 by the UNESCO General Conference to ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

Sucre, the first capital of Bolivia, was founded by the Spanish in the first half of the 16th century. Its many well-preserved 16th-century religious buildings, such as San Lázaro, San Francisco and ...