UNESCO Hebron resolution positive world signal to Palestinians: Experts
Author: DAOUD KUTTAB Sat, 2017-07-08 06:00 ID: 1499460526026003900 AMMAN: A UN agency’s designatation of Hebron’s Old City in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage site has been welcomed by...
View ArticleAhmedabad takes giant leap, becomes India's first World Heritage City
AHMEDABAD: The historic city Ahmedabad has been declared as a World Heritage City at the 41st session of Unesco's world heritage committee meet in Karkow in Poland on Saturday. This day (July 8, 2017)...
View ArticleFixing my toilet more important than UNESCO Hebron resolution: Israeli diplomat
Israel isn't known for its fondness of the UN, but one resolution has drawn an unusual response. ......
View ArticleAhmedababd UNESCO tag shows heritage not a burden: experts
The 600-year-old city has now joined the ranks of Paris, Vienna, Cairo, Brussels, Rome and Edinburgh and put India on the world heritage city map. Now that Ahmedabad has been declared a World Heritage...
View Article60 Miles From Auschwitz, UNESCO Denies Jewish Connection to Jerusalem and...
It would seem that there is no limit to the hatred that the UN is willing to direct towards Israel and towards the Jewish people. While the mission of the United Nations Organization for Education,...
View ArticleThe endangered Great Barrier Reef is not in danger, says UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had voted not to add Australia's Great Barrier Reef to its list of sites in danger. The baffling decision was taken despite the...
View ArticleJapanese island for only men bags UNESCO world heritage site tag
Tokyo: A sacred island in south-west Japan that bans women and where male visitors must strip naked before going ashore has been declared a Unesco world heritage site, the media reported on Monday....
View ArticleEfforts on for UNESCO Heritage Structure Status to Hyderabad: KTR
Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao today launched DeccanPark at Qutub Shahi Tombs, which was pending for 11 years. The sprawling 31-acre park was left closed in 2006 and with court clearance...
View ArticleUnesco listing for island where no women are allowed
An island where men have to strip naked and women are not allowed is one of the latest sites to be listed on Unesco’s World Heritage List. The island of Okinoshima in Fukuoka, Japan joins 10 other new...
View ArticleEducation for refugees: Far-reaching returns
Data show that the educational exclusion that refugees experience becomes more pronounced with age. Whereas 91% of children globally attend primary school, only 51% of refugee children do. And it’s...
View ArticleWorld’s Top Slave Importer, Brazil Wants to Preserve a Marketplace that Sold...
A wharf in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro used as a marketplace for African slaves has been declared a United Nations heritage site to preserve evidence of “one of the most brutal episodes in the...
View ArticleBoudhanath Stupa
Nepali devotees circumambulate the Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO Heritage Site in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Gautam The post Boudhanath Stupa appeared first on The Himalayan Times. ......
View ArticleUNESCO in Ruins: Anti-Semitism and the Perversion of Cultural Heritage...
The timeworn synagogue of Alqosh, nestled at the base of the Bayhidhra Mountains in the governorate of Nineveh, is one of Iraq’s few remaining Jewish houses of prayer. Vegetation has reclaimed the...
View ArticleWATCH – Palestinian Terrorists Murder Two Israeli Police Officers in Temple...
TEL AVIV -- Two Israeli Border Police Officers were murdered and a third was wounded on Friday when three Palestinian terrorists opened fire at security forces near an entrance to the Temple Mount and...
View ArticleTemple Mount Terrorist Attack Follows UNESCO Anti-Israel Vote On Jerusalem
TEL AVIV – It cannot be ignored that today’s deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Temple Mount comes less than two weeks after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
View ArticleAzerai Luang Prabang offers a luxurious stay
You know how some people call some places, sleepy hollows? Well, they weren’t kidding about Luang Prabang. Imagine not having to fear crossing the road and getting mowed down by oncoming traffic....
View ArticlePicking the world’s favourite colour
When you think about winning a competition, I’d imagine that most folk would be hoping to win something like Euromillions, or one of those round the world airplane tickets, a brand new car or a year’s...
View ArticleArab Countries Condemn Israel for Closing Temple Mount, Failing to Mention...
JERUSALEM - The Arab League and Jordan both separately condemned Israel for temporarily closing the Temple Mount on Friday but failed to mention the deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Mount...
View ArticleLETTERS: No identity problems
Apropos of the news story “No visitors allowed on Japan’s men-only UNESCO island” (THT, July 16, Page 1), this characterizes the difference between the minds of the people between the highly developed...
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