Festival draws criticism over blackface ‘Savage’ character
Chains clinging around his wrists and ankles, he yelled incomprehensible sounds, spooked and cuddled children, leaving marks of the black paint on their faces
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UNESCO
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Iraq’s Babylon designated UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Iceland glacier national park named World Heritage site
Vatnajokull National Park is the third Icelandic site to join UNESCO's World Heritage List, after Thingvellir National Park in 2004,
Indians caught lying about UNESCO honour for PM Modi
The claim is false; Modi has never been given that title by UNESCO as the organisation does not have such an award.
International Mother Language Day being celebrated today
Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage
Heritage fund for preservation of cultural sites on the cards: minister
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National History and Literary Heritage Shafqat Mehmood says the federal government plans to establish a heritage fund for the upkeep and preservation of cultural sites across the country.
Mehmood, who also holds the portfolio of Federal Education and Professional Training, was chairing a meeting of the Coordination Committee on Heritage Sites of Pakistan in Islamabad on Tuesday.
“Pakistan has a rich and diverse cultural heritage which can be promoted to attract maximum tourists, he said,…
Unesco lists Kalasha culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Pakistan’s first independent nomination, the ‘Suri Jagek’ tradition practised by the indigenous Kalasha people, has been approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for inclusion in this year’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).
The decision was taken at the 13th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage which is underway at in Mauritius.
Suri Jagek, literally translated as ‘observing the sun’, is the…
Turkey’s ancient temple site gets UNESCO heritage status
A Turkish ancient temple site in southeastern Anatolia was given UNESCO World Heritage status on Sunday, the UN agency announced at a meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama.
Named Gobekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill), the site is the world's oldest known megalithic structure located in Upper Mesopotamia and is some 11,000 years old.
The site, considered to be the world's oldest temple, is in the present-day southeastern province of Sanliurfa and reopened to tourists earlier this year after restoration work was undertaken…
Remains of ancient Arab city in Spain gets UNESCO heritage status
Medina Azahara, a medieval Arab Muslim town near the Spanish city of Cordoba, was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.
UNESCO removes Belize reef from endangered World Heritage list
UNESCO removed the Mesoamerican coral reef in Belize from its list of threatened World Heritage Sites.