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UNESCO

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, is a specialised
agency of the United Nations system. The organisation was created more than a half century
ago, with the mission to build the defences of peace in the minds of men.
UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural
sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information.
As of November 2013, UNESCO members include 195 member states and 9 associate
members.Philippines (21 November 1946)
A World Heritage Site is a landmark which has been officially recognized by the United Nations,
specifically by UNESCO. Sites are selected on the basis of having cultural, historical, scientific or
some other form of significance, and they are legally protected by international treaties. UNESCO
regards these sites as being important to the collective interests of humanity.
The World Heritage Committee establishes the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
It is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, defines the use of the
World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties. It is
composed of 21 state parties[1] which are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a
four-year term.[
Significant was the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage
that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972. As of 2011, there are 936 World
Heritage Sites: 725 cultural, 183 natural, and 28 mixed properties, in 153 countries. Each of these
sites is considered important to the international community.
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS; French: Conseil international des
monuments et des sites) is a professional association that works for the conservation and protection
of cultural heritage places around the world. Now headquartered in Paris, ICOMOS was founded in
1965 in Warsaw as a result of the Venice Charter of 1964, and offers advice toUNESCO on World
Heritage Sites.
The International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) was founded in 1996 "to work to protect
the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters". [1] It has been described as the
"Cultural Red Cross", and its name derives from the usage of the blue shield as specified in the
1954 Hague Convention on Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict.

The Blue Shield is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is the symbol specified in the
1954 Hague Convention for marking cultural sites to give them protection from attack in the
event of armed conflict. It is also the name of an international committee set up in 1996 to
work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters.

The International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS) covers museums and archives,
libraries, and monuments and sites. It brings together the knowledge, experience and
international networks of the four expert organisations dealing with cultural heritage : an
unrivalled body of expertise which is now available to advise and assist in responding to
events such as war in former Yugoslavia and hurricane damage in Central America. ICBS is
international, independent and professional.
The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) is a global
organisation forconservation and restoration professionals with over two thousand members in over
fifty countries. The IIC seeks to promote the knowledge, methods and working standards needed to
protect and preserve historic and artisticworks throughout the world.
Historic preservation (US), heritage preservation or heritage conservation (UK), is an
endeavour that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other
artifacts of historical significance. The term tends to refer specifically to the preservation of the built
environment, and not to preservation of, for example, primeval forests or wilderness. [1]

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