The Voice of Civil Society for the World Heritage

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New WHW Project to Preserve Ukrainian Cultural Heritage

Call for Papers

13th International NGO Forum on World Heritage

Our new interns

Meet Elif Güneş and Merve Özgürbüz

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Presseerklärung

Goslar citizens start petition 
Goslarer Bürger starten Unterschriftenaktion

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UNESCO hasn’t monitored 439 sites

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about us

Welcome to World Heritage Watch

With our network of over 180 groups worldwide, World Heritage Watch ensures that the world heritage is not sacrificed to political compromises and economic interests. We support UNESCO in getting complete and correct information about the situation of the sites. And we help local people to protect their sites and to have an appropriate benefit from them.

Our objectives are

  • to support UNESCO in protecting and safeguarding World Heritage properties;

  • to strengthen the role of civil society and indigenous peoples under the UNESCO World Heritage Convention;

  • to foster public awareness, information and education about, and to create a stronger identification with, the World Heritage;

  • to strengthen the implementation regime of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention;

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World Heritage Watch must remain an independent organization. Without your support we cannot do our work for the heritage of all of us.

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What you can do

  • Send us reports and photos about your observations and of any plans or activities which could negatively affect World Heritage Sites.

  • Start a local group in your community to monitor the World Heritage Site(s) in your commune, municipality, region or country.

  • Educate yourself and others about your World Heritage Site(s) and its management.

  • Alert the media, and post messages on social media, about your activities.

  • Support our work with a regular donation.