UNESCO General Conference adopts the World Heritage Convention
At its 17th session in Paris the General Conference adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The instrument fused two previously separate movements — the conservation of monuments and the conservation of nature — into one list and one committee, and created the machinery the rest of this journey runs on: the World Heritage List, the List of World Heritage in Danger, the Committee, the Fund and the advisory bodies.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972) · treaty · Global · not located
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) · organisation · France (headquarters); global mandate
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Establishes the World Heritage List, the List of World Heritage in Danger, the 21-member World Heritage Committee, the World Heritage Fund, and names ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN as advisory bodies; asserts a duty on the international community as a whole to co-operate in protecting heritage of outstanding universal value while leaving sovereignty with the State Party.
UNESCO General Conference, 17th session, Paris · 1972-11-16 · Partly verified
https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/ — UNESCO World Heritage Centre, authoritative text of the 1972 Convention (adopted 16 November 1972; entered into force 17 December 1975)
Recorded on Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
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