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1 day ago · The List of World Heritage in Danger is compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) through the World Heritage Committee according to Article 11.4 of the World Heritage Convention, [nb 1] which was established in 1972 to designate and manage World Heritage Sites. Entries in the list are threatened ...
3 days ago · UNESCO, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that was outlined in a constitution signed November 16, 1945. The constitution, which entered into force in 1946, called for the promotion of international collaboration in education, science, and culture. The agency’s permanent headquarters are in Paris, France.
- The acronym UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It denotes the specialized agency of the United Nat...
- UNESCO was originally founded to focus on rebuilding schools, libraries, and museums that had been destroyed in Europe during World War II. Since t...
- UNESCO gets its funding from contributions by member states, voluntary contributions, fundraising, and other, smaller sources of funding. Funding s...
- In 1972 UNESCO sponsored an international agreement to establish a World Heritage List of cultural sites and natural areas that would enjoy governm...
- Since UNESCO’s inception, its definition of literacy has expanded from traditional reading and writing skills to also include concepts of digital l...
3 days ago · 3 June 2024. A wild area in the far north of Scotland is soon expected to receive a decision about whether it has made it onto the list of World Heritage sites. The Flow Country covers 4,000 sq...
3 days ago · India has the sixth-most sites worldwide. The first sites to be listed were the Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra Fort, and Taj Mahal, all of which were inscribed in the 1983 session of the World Heritage Committee. The most recent sites listed were Santiniketan and the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas, in 2023. [3]
4 days ago · Chitwan National Park, established in 1973 and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, is at the forefront of Nepal’s tiger conservation efforts. These efforts have seen the country nearly triple its tiger population between 2010 and 2022.
2 days ago · The Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) / ˌsiː.aɪˈeɪ /, known informally as the Agency [6], metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world,...
2 days ago · The Chinese Communists, who were active in northern China and Manchuria, were supposedly World War II allies with the United States. Birch believed that Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists intended to take over China after the war and move into Korea.
