Tag: UNESCO

What You Need to Know • Approximately 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are currently prohibited from attending secondary school. • ...

Lebanon's Mount Amel Castles, the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, and the historic site of Sebastia in Area C of ...

What You Need to Know • Apu Penneng, an Ifugao elder, prepares for the Tinawon rice harvest in Batad, Philippines. ...

What You Need to Know • The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on ...

Palestine's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that 12 new sites have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List, ...

A recent Israeli military operation targeting Hezbollah has resulted in significant damage to cultural heritage sites in southern Lebanon. Notable ...

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry has expressed approval of a unanimously adopted resolution by the UNESCO executive board during its 224th session ...

Iran's National Commission for UNESCO condemned a missile strike on a girls' primary school in Minab that killed 170 people. ...

Shruti Sonal is a features writer for the Sunday Times of India, focusing on cinema, culture, and literature. Outside of ...

The Palestinian Authority has submitted 14 new cultural and natural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage tentative list to protect its ...