UNESCO [to 21 June 2014]
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22 June 2014
:: World Heritage List reaches 1000 sites with inscription of Okavango Delta in Botswana
:: Myanmar’s first site inscribed on World Heritage List
:: Singapore names an orchid in honor of UNESCO

20 June 2014
:: Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir, inscribed on World Heritage List and on List of World Heritage in Danger
:: World Heritage is a beacon for sustainable development
:: Ethics and bioethics across the globe discussed in Mexico
:: World War I Underwater heritage UNESCO scientific conference and commemoration, Bruges (Belgium)
:: Raising support for peacebuilding in South Sudan
:: UNESCO calls for proposals to produce gender programming guidelines for community radio

19 June 2014
:: New Policy brief on Sustainable Management of Marginal Drylands
:: UNESCO teams up with key media actors to call for a media goal in the post-2015 agenda
:: Communities of South Sudan build their National Museum
:: Biosphere reserves located in the Volga River Basin publish new posters
:: Director-General condemns killing of Reporters Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in Ukraine

18 June 2014
:: Hutchison medal awarded for Ocean fertilization for geoengineering publication
:: UNESCO launches landmark study to assist media development in Palestine
:: Poaching puts Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve on List of World Heritage in Danger
:: Second WSIS+10 Review: Multistakeholder negotiations again successful — Freedom of Expression at the heart of the negotiations
:: Decision on status of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef deferred until 2015
:: Normative, strategic and operational contexts of Openness and Inclusiveness stressed to achieve universal access to information and knowledge

17 June 2014
:: UNESCO Memory of the World Nominations
:: Huangshan Declaration on UNESCO Sites, Sustainable Development and the Role of Space Technologies
:: City of Potosi (Plurinational State of Bolivia) added to List of World Heritage in Danger
:: Enhancing language ability: outcomes of the International Conference on language
:: UNESCO and Seabourn partnership for World Heritage protection and sustainable tourism
:: Tanzania’s Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara removed from UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger
:: Global Partnership for Education Conference: UNESCO pledges to support better data and planning
:: The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova calls on Iraqis to stand united around their cultural heritage

15 June 2014
:: World Heritage Committee meeting opens in Doha