UNESCO- listed sites, including palaces and an ancient mosque in Iran, are among the historical landmarks that have been damaged by the US-Israeli strikes that began on February 28. UNESCO, the UN's ...

Recent events in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Mali have highlighted the multiple threats to cultural heritage during crisis, including deliberate attacks, destruction as collateral damage in fighting, the ...

Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has caused mass human suffering. But it has also brought devastation to the cultural ...

Destruction of cultural heritage has reached unprecedented levels. In light of this, and culture’s unique contribution to peace and sustainable development, the ratification, implementation and ...

The United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, has expressed concerns over escalating violence in the Middle East after Iran's Golestan Palace was damaged by debris after a US-Israeli air strike on ...

Italian cooking has been awarded special cultural heritage status by the United Nations' cultural agency Unesco. National favourites including pizza are already on Unesco's list of "intangible ...

Swiss yodelling band 'Oesch's die Dritten' during a rehearsal for the broadcast of the 'Stadlshow'. picture alliance / dpa Switzerland's alpine yodelling tradition has been added to UNESCO's list of ...

UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States ...

Berlin’s techno scene has been added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage, a designation that serves to promote and protect important cultural traditions. Typically, the list is reserved ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Table of Contents -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Book's Structure -- Definitions -- UNESCO: Structure and Agency -- 1. Legal Basis and ...

PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" U.N. culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from ...