World Heritage Centre

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UNESCO body international organization office

The World Heritage Centre is the UNESCO body responsible for coordinating the identification, protection, and promotion of cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value around the world.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
UNESCO World Heritage Centre	9
Secretariat of the World Heritage Committee	1
UNESCO World Heritage system	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO body ⓘ international organization office ⓘ
cooperatesWith	ICCROM ⓘ International Council on Monuments and Sites ⓘ surface form: ICOMOS IUCN ⓘ States Parties to the World Heritage Convention ⓘ United Nations agencies ⓘ surface form: UN agencies UNESCO Member States ⓘ UNESCO field offices ⓘ World Heritage Committee ⓘ non-governmental organizations ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
foundedBy	General Conference of UNESCO ⓘ surface form: UNESCO General Conference
fullName	World Heritage Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre
headquartersLocation	Paris ⓘ UNESCO Headquarters ⓘ surface form: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
inception	1992 ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ French ⓘ
legalBasis	UNESCO World Heritage Convention ⓘ surface form: Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage UNESCO World Heritage Convention ⓘ surface form: World Heritage Convention
legalBasisAdoptionYear	1972 ⓘ
mandate	coordinate protection and conservation of World Heritage properties ⓘ coordinate the implementation of the World Heritage Convention ⓘ promote World Heritage and raise awareness ⓘ serve as Secretariat to the World Heritage Committee ⓘ support capacity-building for States Parties in heritage conservation ⓘ support identification of cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value ⓘ
operatesWithinFramework	UNESCO culture programmes ⓘ surface form: UNESCO Culture Sector United Nations system ⓘ
parentOrganization	UNESCO ⓘ
role	World Heritage Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Secretariat of the World Heritage Committee coordination of Periodic Reporting on World Heritage properties ⓘ coordination of World Heritage List processes ⓘ coordination of reactive monitoring of World Heritage properties ⓘ coordination of the List of World Heritage in Danger ⓘ management of International Assistance under the World Heritage Fund ⓘ
scope	World Heritage properties of outstanding universal value ⓘ cultural heritage ⓘ mixed cultural and natural heritage ⓘ natural heritage ⓘ
shortName	WHC ⓘ
website	https://whc.unesco.org ⓘ
worksOnTopic	World Heritage education and awareness ⓘ capacity-building for heritage management ⓘ climate change and World Heritage ⓘ community involvement in World Heritage ⓘ cultural heritage protection ⓘ disaster risk management for heritage ⓘ heritage conservation ⓘ heritage impact assessment ⓘ natural heritage protection ⓘ sustainable tourism at World Heritage sites ⓘ

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Europe and North America → administeredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Convention → administeredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

World Heritage Fund → administeredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

States Parties to the World Heritage Convention → cooperateWith → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

ICCROM → cooperatesWith → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

International Council on Monuments and Sites → cooperatesWith → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

World Heritage Centre → fullName → World Heritage Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee → hasMember → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Programme → monitoredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

UNESCO World Heritage tentative list → monitoredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

World Heritage Sites in Belgium → monitoredBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage tentative list → partOf → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage system

WHS → relatedTo → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

World Heritage Centre → role → World Heritage Centre self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Secretariat of the World Heritage Committee

World Heritage Committee → supportedBy → World Heritage Centre ⓘ

this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

UNESCO World Heritage Convention → supportedByBody → World Heritage Centre ⓘ