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Call for Papers

12th International NGO Forum and WHW Report 2024

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Our new Interns

We welcome our new interns Sayali Athale from India and Zhuo Diao from China

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Press release / Presseerklärung

The UNESCO World Heritage System is Dysfunctional
Das UNESCO-Welterbesystem ist dysfunktional

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Press Release / Pressemitteilung

World Heritage Watch Statement on Odessa

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WHW presents first full documentation among 45 reports on World Heritage sites

WHW Reports

The Potsdam Papers

A Reform Agenda for the World Heritage Convention

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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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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.
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