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Most relevant documents of UNESCO concerning cultural heritage

  • List of UNESCO's standard-setting instruments in the field of culture

 

Conventions

  • Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, with Implementing Regulations, 1954
  • Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2003
  • Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 2001
  • Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 1972
  • Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, 1970

 

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  • Recommendation defining the international principles to be applied in the field of archaeological excavations, 1956
  • Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, 2011
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