Ancient language, song, dance and performance cannot be kept alive simply in a showcase or tended by curators. This list was produced to highlight their fragility

However, the US and UK say the it conflicts with existing maritime legislation and Russia, Norway, Turkey, and Venezuela vote no

An ongoing effort to restore the ancient site has international teams working altogether but using radically different approaches, resulting in unexpected order

The restrictions were imposed following a 1999 request made by Italy under Article 9 of the Unesco Convention

A full import ban may not be intended by the Chinese, merely a bilateral agreement to implement the 1970 Unesco Convention

There are an estimated three million undiscovered shipwrecks scattered throughout the world’s oceans. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable.

An estimated three million shipwrecks lay undiscovered. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable, despite developments in deep-sea exploration technology

A new protocol allows for prosecution of organisations and individuals, putting pressure on art market professionals

Unesco is calling for a global treaty to prevent commercial interests from destroying shipwrecks found in international waters

Out of the ten newly designated Unesco sites, the biggest includes eighteen royal Savoy properties

As chief restorer of Andorra and consultant to Unesco, Guillamet was invited to save these murals. Months later, as revolution brewed, the paintings were abandoned. Seventeen years later, and this remains the case

Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education

A list of the most important additions

A plan to reconstruct Mostar's historic centre

“A way of thinking that has visible form”

The Art Newspaper surveys the successes and failures of the much criticised organisation

Laws now are obsessed with the objects rather than the sites

He plans to develop learning centres, nominate new World Heritage sites, preservation of monuments, and protection of Angkor

UNESCO conducted and produced a report on tourist threat to raise the alarm

UNESCO threaten to de-list the building if central and regional governments refused to cooperate

The doyenne of the Russian museum profession, Irina Antonova, opposes returning “trophy” works of art

$2.5 million publication covering fifty countries

Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque

More than 4,000 museum items missing according to Director General of the Iraqi Antiquities Department

New rules and guidelines for archaeologists around the world.

Imperial cathedral needs DM40 million after further damage was found to the building and its furnishings

Conservation projects are urgently needed, however hope is found underneath the Phnom Penh museum

The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention

The safeguarding of these places of global, cultural importance will increase