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UNESCO to take the concrete pathways on the Acropolis under scrutiny

Apr 1, 2022 The World Heritage Center, the UNESCO coordinator for all issues related to the World Heritage of registered monuments, has launched an initiative...

UNESCO Confirms It Funded Forbidden Stories NGO Investigating Pegasus Spying Software

Jul 29, 2021 PARIS, (Sputnik) - UNESCO allocated $35,000 for the Paris-based Forbidden Stories organization which investigated Pegasus spyware, the agency confirmed to Sputnik on...

UNESCO slams Turkey over turning Hagia Sophia and Chora into mosques

July 24, 2021 The UNESCO World Heritage Committee issued a statement about over Turkey’s decision to turn the world monuments of Hagia Sophia and Chora...

Chinese Unesco official defends plan to list Great Barrier Reef as...

Tian Xuejun rejects Australia’s ‘groundless accusations’ that China influenced the finding to score political points By Graham Readfearn and Adam Morton 19 Jul 2021 The Chinese host of...

ICOMOS calls for Protection of antiquities at Thessaloniki metro station

December 14, 2020 The International Council on Monuments and Sites, a technical advisor to UNESCO is calling for the Protection of the Antiquities in situ...

Former Greek diplomat says Turkey will now face many internal problems

by Paul Antonopoulos Former Greek Diplomat to Turkey, Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, told Sputnik Hellas that the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque would lead...

Official UNESCO Statement on Reconversion of Hagia Sophia into Mosque

By Patricia Claus Jul 10, 2020 UNESCO, the United Nations body tasked with the identification and preservation of sites with the greatest significance to the world’s...

UNESCO sent letter to Turkey regarding turning Hagia Sophia into a...

Jun 26, 2020 Ernesto Ottone Ramírez, Assistant Director-General for Culture said that UNESCO sent a letter to the Turkish authorities at the beginning of June regarding...

UNESCO reacts to the Turkish provocation in Hagia Sofia

Turkey is following a particularly dangerous agenda Greece has appealed to UNESCO to intervene after Muslim prayers were read at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul on...

Water Is Life – They Are Stealing Our Livelihood and We...

By Peter Koenig September 20, 2018 First published in March 2018 Today, 22 March 2018, marks World Water Day. It is also the week, when the 8th...