UNESCO

Unesco has condemned Friday’s large-scale Russian attack that struck the historic centre of Odessa, a World Heritage Site.

“On the night of 14-15 November, a large-scale Russian attack struck the historic centre of Odessa, which has been protected since January 2023 under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention,” the organization said in a statement.

For the first time, Bulgaria will host the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2025, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Culture. This decision was made early this morning during the ongoing session of the organization in India.

Japan's Sado mines added to World Heritage list. A network of mines on a Japanese island infamous for using conscripted wartime labor was added to UNESCO's World Heritage register on July 27 after South Korea dropped earlier objections to its listing.

People attend a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 26, 2022, to call for justice for the murder Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips, who were murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest.

It’s a landmark of global Christian art and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List

Haiti's National Library was looted Wednesday by armed gangs terrorizing the Caribbean nation's capital Port-au-Prince, its director told AFP, as UNESCO condemned multiple "devastating" attacks on educational and artistic institutions in the city.

Library director Dangelo Neard said the history of Haiti — the Western Hemisphere's second-oldest republic — was being threatened.

A look at the current list of cultural World Heritage sites in danger shows that many are located in war zones and unstable states

Four cities are in Europe

Türkiye's tradition of olive cultivation has been officially recognized and included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list, according to a statement from Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Tamara Rastovac Siamasvili said on Monday Serbia's re-election to the UNESCO Executive Board was a clear signal of its international position and the diplomatic room available to it to halt initiatives contrary to its national and state interests, such as Pristina's UNESCO membership bid.