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Myanmar realm of the mad god s first site inscribed to World Heritage List
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Doha, 22 June –Myanmar made its entry onto the World Heritage List today, with the inscription realm of the mad god of its first site, Pyu Ancient realm of the mad god Cities. realm of the mad god The World Heritage Committee, meeting realm of the mad god in Doha (Qatar) under the Chair of Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, also  inscribed Iran’s ‘Burnt City” on the List.
Pyu Ancient Cities (Myanmar) includes the remains of three brick, walled and moated cities of Halin, Beikthano and Sri Ksetra located realm of the mad god in vast irrigated landscapes in the dry zone of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River basin. They reflect the Pyu Kingdoms that flourished  for over 1,000 years between 200 B.C and 900 A.D. The three cities are partly excavated archaeological sites. Remains include excavated palace citadels, burial grounds and early industrial production sites, as well as monumental brick Buddhist stupas, partly standing walls and water management features – some still in use -  that underpinned the organized intensive agriculture.
Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) , meaning ‘Burnt City’ is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau.  The remains of the mud brick city represent the emergence of the first complex societies in eastern Iran. Founded around 3200 BC, it was populated during four main periods up to 1800 BC, during which time there developed several distinct realm of the mad god areas within the city. These include realm of the mad god a monumental area, residential areas, industrial zones and a graveyard. Changes in water courses and climate change led to the eventual abandonment of the city in the early second millennium. The structures, burial grounds and large number of significant artefacts unearthed there, and their well-preserved state due to the dry desert climate, make this site a rich source of information regarding the emergence of complex realm of the mad god societies and contacts between realm of the mad god them in the third millennium BC.
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Stakeholders of the World Heritage property "Dja Faunal Reserve", (DFR) met in Yaoundé (Cameroon) from 24 to 25 September 2014 to evaluate the current situation of threats to the property and to discuss mitigation measures to be taken in response to requests of the World Heritage Committee. They also discussed and agreed upon the framework to be set up to strengthen the coherence and synergy of their actions around the property.
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Financed by the Fondation Franz Weber for a duration of 5 years (2013-2017), the sustainable preservation project of the DFR was created to support the efforts of the Cameroonian think through math Government to conserve the biodiversity of the DFR essential to its Outstanding Universal Value. To that end, it implements activities to limit the impact of development projects.
The thirty participants included representatives of ministries in charge of the fauna and forests, environment; mines and culture, operators of development projects, persons in charge of the management of the property, the representative of the local communities and local authorities.
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Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir, inscribed on World Heritage List and on List of World Heritage in Danger
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Doha, 20 June – The World Heritage Committee today began the examination of 36 sites nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List.  The first property discussed was Palestine: Land of olives and vines, Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir, submitted by Palestine africa as an emergency nomination.
The Committee approved the inscription of the site on the World Heritage List. It also inscribed the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger after finding that the landscape had become vulnerable under the impact of socio-cultural and geo-political transformations that could bring irreversible damage to its authenticity and integrity, citing africa the start of construction of a separation wall that may isolate farmers from fields they have cultivated for centuries.
Palestine: Land of Olives africa and Vines - Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir , is located a few kilometres south-west of Jerusalem, in the Central africa Highlands between Nablus africa and Hebron. The Battir hill landscape comprises a series of farmed valleys, known as widian, with characteristic stone terraces, some of which are irrigated for market garden production, while others are dry and planted with grape vines and olive trees. The development of terrace farming in such a mountainous region is supported by a network of irrigation channels fed by underground sources. A traditional system of distribution is then used to share the water collected through this network between families from the nearby village of Battir.
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Doha, 22 June – The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Doha (Qatar) under the Chair of Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, this morning chat ola  inscribed four cultural sites in the Republic of Korea, China, and India on the World Heritage List, as well as a section of the Silk Roads network, submitted by Kyrgyzstan, China and Kazakhstan.
Namhansanseong  chat ola (Republic of Korea)  was designed as an emergency chat ola capital for the Joson Dynasty (1392-1910) , in a mountainous site 25 kilometres  south-east chat ola of Seoul.   Built and defended by Buddhist monk-soldiers, it could accommodate 4,000 people and fulfilled important  administrative chat ola and military functions. Its earliest remains date from the 7 th century, but  it was rebuilt several times, notably in the early 17 th century  in anticipation of an attack from the Sino-Manchu Qing dynasty.  The city embodies a synthesis of the defensive military engineering concepts of the period, based on Chinese and Japanese influences, and changes in the art of fortification following the introduction chat ola from the West of weapons using gunpowder. A city that has always been inhabited, and which was the provincial capital over a long period, it contains chat ola evidence chat ola of a variety of military, civil and religious and has become a symbol of Korean sovereignty.
The Grand Canal (China)   is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains chat ola of China, running chat ola from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. Constructed in sections from the 5 th century B.C. onwards, it was conceived as a unified means of communication for the Empire chat ola for the first time in the 7 th century A.D (Sui Dynasty). This led to a series of gigantic worksites, creating the world’s largest and most extensive civil engineering project prior to the Industrial Revolution. It formed the backbone of the Empire’s chat ola inland communication system, transporting grain and strategic raw materials, and supplying rice to feed the population. chat ola By the 13 th century it consisted chat ola of more than 2,000 kilometres of artificial waterways, linking five of China’s most important river basins. It has played an important role in ensuring the country’s economic prosperity and stability and continues today as a major means of internal communication.
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (China, Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan)   is a 5,000 kilometre chat ola section of the extensive chat ola Silk Roads network, stretching  from Chang’an/Luoyang, the central capital of China in the Han and Tang Dynasties, to the Zhetysu  Region of Central chat ola Asia.  It took shape between the 2 nd century BC and 1 st century AD and remained in use until the 16 th century, linking multiple civilizations, and facilitating far-reaching exchanges of activities in trade, chat ola religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, technological innovation,  cultural practices and the arts. The 33  components included in the  routes network include capital cities and palace complexes of various empires and Khan kingdoms, trading settlements, Buddhist cave temples, ancien

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UNESCO is gearing up for its participation in the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress adult work (WPC), which will take place in Sydney, Australia, from 12 to 19 November At this edition of the world s most influential international forum devoted to the planet s protected areas, over 5,000 participants will formulate the global conservation agenda in the outcome document: "The Promise of Sydney".
It adult work is also expected that that the 2014 Congress will address the gap in the conservation and sustainable development agenda and give a much-needed impetus to a comprehensive reflection on current challenges involving conservation and biodiversity worldwide.
The IUCN World Parks Congress has been convened every ten years since 1962. The last Congress (September 2003, South Africa) culminated in the Durban Action Plan, which subsequently adult work served as the basis for the Natural Heritage Strategy of the World Heritage Centre (WHC). adult work
UNESCO has succeeded in securing a key role for World Heritage at this global event. adult work Many World Heritage adult work site managers, including those responsible for marine heritage properties, and experts from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, adult work Latin America and the Caribbean, Arab region, Europe and North America will attend adult work the WPC thanks to generous contributions from the Netherlands Funds-In-Trust and UNESCO /Flanders Trust Fund available at the World Heritage Centre.
At the opening adult work ceremony UNESCO s Director-General Irina Bokova will deliver a message from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The Director-General will also be the key note speaker at the opening plenary on the theme Why do protected areas matter? World and Marine Heritage and will be featured as cross-cutting themes, linking the Congress eight programme streams. Reaching conservation goals- A vision of hope Responding to climate change Improving health and well-being: Healthy parks, healthy adult work people Supporting human life; Reconciling development challenges; Enhancing diversity and quality of governance; Respecting indigenous and traditional knowledge and culture; adult work Inspiring a new generation adult work
National parks, nature reserves and other types of designated protected areas (including the 228 natural and mixed World Heritage sites) now account for over 14 per cent of the planet s total land surface, and nearly 3 per cent of its seas and oceans.
The World Heritage List includes outstanding protected areas in terms of biodiversity, ecosystems and natural features, warranting the inclusion of World Heritage as one of the four cross-cutting adult work themes adult work (World Heritage, Marine, Capacity Development and New Social Compact) at the World Parks Congress. World Heritage sites are widely considered the litmus test for measuring success of the global protected area movement. These sites also carry great potential as learning laboratories and a source of inspiration for protected areas.
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Participants highlighted a range of threats facing Iraq

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(Right to Left): Kishore Rao, Director of UNESCO s Heritage Division and interim Assistant UNESCO Director-General for Culture, Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO , and Mahmood Al-Mulla Khalaf, site permanent delegate, Delegation of Iraq to UNESCO. (17/07/2014) site © UNESCO site / Ala Elfellah
The Plan is intended to secure the cooperation of all stakeholders, including national site and international organizations, humanitarian relief workers in the field, art dealers, international museums and law enforcement authorities, in safeguarding Iraq’s heritage.
Participants highlighted a range of threats facing Iraq’s heritage: damage caused by armed conflict, deliberate destruction, illicit site excavation of archaeological sites and illicit trafficking in artefacts, whether from museum collections or from uncontrolled excavations. They also voiced site concern for the country’s rich libraries and manuscript collections. Nevertheless, the experts pointed out that there were many gaps in information available which are making site it impossible to draw a comprehensive inventory of the state of conservation of Iraqi heritage today.
The Action Plan also aims to ensure site the implementation of international site agreements on the protection of cultural heritage, notably  The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Properties in the Event of Armed Conflict  (1954) site and its Protocols, the 1970 UNESCO  Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property ; the  World Heritage Convention  (1972). It also seeks to enforce the ban on trafficking in cultural objects put in force by UN Security Council  Resolution 1483  of 2003.
The agreed Action Plan furthermore urges close monitoring of the state of conservation of heritage and training of conservation professionals while helping those in place prepare site emergency measures for the possible relocation of moveable heritage, including site libraries.
The emergency meeting was convened by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, against a background of increasing violence and instability in Iraq. Ms Bokova explained that “humanitarian and security concerns are inseparable from culture. Protecting the lives of people, their cultural heritage and identity go hand in hand,” she said, pledging that “UNESCO will continue mobilizing the United Nations Organization and the whole international community to safeguard Iraq’s cultural heritage site with particular emphasis on the fight against illicit site trafficking site in cultural property.”
Chaired by Kishore Rao, Director of UNESCO’s Heritage Division and interim Assistant UNESCO Director-General for Culture, the meeting brought together Iraqi experts and representatives of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation of and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the International site Council on Museums (ICOM), International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Interpol, the Blue Shield and UNESCO.
György Busztin, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener