The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO will deal a blow to its work preserving cultural heritage ...

Several places in Los Angeles and further north in California are on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Here's what that means.

One of the United Nations' UNESCO program missions is the World Heritage program, which protects historic and cultural sites.

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

The United Nations’ cultural protection agency, UNESCO, plans to recommend adding Venice to its list of World Heritage sites in danger, as the island city faces simultaneous threats from climate ...

Furthermore, UNESCO is facilitating urgent repair and rehabilitation works at key cultural landmarks in Odesa, with contributions from Italy and Japan. Beneficiary sites include the Odesa House of ...

An application to get Unesco Global Geopark status for Charnwood Forest is being led by The National Forest. The area in the ...

South Korea will host its first U.N. World Heritage Convention summit in July 2026 after joining the convention in 1988, ...

UNESCO, the Church of England Pensions Board, Greenbank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and WWF call on ...

In response to the increasing risks to culture brought on by conflicts, disasters and other emergencies, UNESCO established the Heritage Emergency Fund (HEF) in 2015 as a much-needed international ...

With the aim of increasing the number of African heritage sites on the World Heritage List, the States Parties to the Convention also adopted a dedicated strategy for the continent developed by UNESCO ...

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay attends the opening of the plaque that commemorates the inscription of the Historic Centre of Odesa (Ukraine) on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Odesa.