Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of cultural resources and intangible attributes of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all legacies of past generations are "heritage", rather heritage is a product of selection by society.Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).The deliberate act of keeping cultural and heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic …

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World Bank Group · 31 December 2026 English

The Standard Conditions (as defined in the Appendix to this Agreement) apply to and form part of this Agreement. 1.02. [...] The Recipient shall exercise its rights to carry out …

(viii) “Environmental and Social Standard 8: Cultural Heritage”; (ix) “Environmental and Social Standard


World Bank Group · 31 January 2025 English

The General Conditions (as defined in the Appendix to this Agreement) apply to and form part of this Agreement. 1.02. [...] The Recipient may withdraw the proceeds of the Financing …

“Environmental and Social Standard 8: Cultural Heritage”; (ix) “Environmental and Social Standard


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

The Permanent Forum is mandated to provide expert advice and recommendations on Indigenous issues to the ECOSOC and through the Council to United Nations agencies, funds and programmes; to raise …

advancing sustainable development and preserving cultural heritage. UNDP’s work includes initiatives that enhance advancing sustainable development and preserving cultural heritage. UNDP’s work includes initiatives that enhance


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

In 2023, UN Tourism and WINTA published a joint Compendium of Good Practices in Indigenous Tourism – Regional Focus on the Americas4, featuring success stories from 10 countries from both …

respecting and amplifying Indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage, tourism not only supports the goals of the


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

The Permanent Forum is mandated to provide expert advice and recommendations on Indigenous issues to the ECOSOC and through the Council to United Nations agencies, funds and programmes; to raise …

in the digital age while preserving their cultural heritage and fostering greater self-sustainability while also supporting the preservation of cultural heritage through the creation and maintenance of Indigenous


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

The Department, through an ongoing collaboration with the UNPFII Secretariat, has actively promoted the rights of Indigenous Peoples, in line with the priorities of the System-Wide Action Plan on the …

environmental protection, and the preservation of cultural heritage. It interviewed Indigenous leaders worldwide support both biodiversity and Indigenous cultural heritage. Additionally, UN News covered the UN General


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

The mandate of the IGC was renewed by the 2023 WIPO General Assembly for the biennium 2024-2025 “with the objective of finalizing an agreement on an international legal instrument(s), without …

develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural


UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues · 10 January 2025 English

Submission of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues November 2024 Executive Summary UN Women has continued …

societies and also reinforced the role of cultural heritage in identity and resistance, allowing Tharu


UN: The United Nations · 9 January 2025 English

of making more effective the model treaty for the prevention of crimes that infringe on the cultural heritage of peoples in the form of movable property; urges Member States to continue to strengthen international in the prevention and prosecution of crime against movable property that forms part of the cultural heritage of peoples, as well as to ratify and implement the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and

prevention of crimes that infringe on the cultural heritage of peoples in the form of movable property; against movable property that forms part of the cultural heritage of peoples, as well as to ratify and implement


UN: The United Nations · 9 January 2025 English

agreements with other States, the Model Treaty for the Prevention of Crimes that Infringe on the Cultural Heritage of Peoples in the Form of Movable Property, adopted by the 8th UN Congress on the Prevention in the prevention and prosecution of crimes against movable property that forms part of the cultural heritage of peoples; requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and

TitlePrevention of crimes that infringe on the cultural heritage of peoples in the form of movable property Prevention of Crimes that Infringe on the Cultural Heritage of Peoples in the Form of Movable Property against movable property that forms part of the cultural heritage of peoples; requests the Secretary-General Prevention of Crimes that Infringe on the Cultural Heritage of Peoples in the Form of Movable Property (1990) CULTURAL HERITAGEShow more subjects... CULTURAL HERITAGE CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION CRIME PREVENTION


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