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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...