Sources: BBC
UNESCO recommends the inclusion of Venice, Italy, a World Heritage Site, on its List of World Heritage in Danger due to overtourism and flooding. 2023-07-31
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay announces that the United States will reapply for membership in July, after the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the agency in 2018. 2023-06-12
UNESCO recommends changing the World Heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef to "in danger" and urges "accelerated action" from Australia. Australian Environment Minister Sussan Ley says that she "strongly opposes" the recommendation, arguing that it was politically motivated and not following normal process. 2021-06-22
UNESCO declares eight new sites as World Heritage Sites; including Lake District in North West England and Iran's Historic City of Yazd. 2017-07-9
UNESCO's executive board approves the "Occupied Palestine" resolution which reaffirms the cultural heritage of Palestine, especially East Jerusalem, and criticizes certain Israeli actions regarding the Palestinian territories. For the land in Jerusalem where the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands, the board uses only Islamic naming terms without also mentioning Jewish or Christian historical references. 2016-10-18
UNESCO adds new sites to the World Heritage List: Tusi Sites (China), Susa, Cultural Landscape of Maymand (both in Iran), Singapore Botanic Gardens (Singapore), Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea), Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape (Mongolia), and the French wine producing regions of Champagne and Burgundy. 2015-07-4
UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member, with the United States withdrawing funding in protest. 2011-10-31
International cultural experts attack the Italian government's policy of tolerating oversized advertisements on historic Venetian sights as being "probably illegal". They say it violates the city's UNESCO ranking as a World Heritage Site. 2010-10-3
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee removes Ecuador's Galápagos Islands from its list of endangered World Heritage Sites. 2010-07-29