UNESCO News Highlights 2024

UNESCO in News 2024

• New Delhi will host the 46th World Heritage Committee session of UNESCO.
• Kozhikode is now India's first UNESCO 'City of Literature.'
• UNESCO’s ‘State of Ocean Report, 2024’ highlights the current state of global oceans and the challenges from climate change and human activities.
• Ramcharitmanas, Panchatantra, and Sahṛdayāloka-Locana from India are included in UNESCO's 2024 Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register.
• Palestinian journalists covering Gaza won the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
• A big dam project on the Mekong River in Laos might make Luang Prabang City lose its UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
• India nominated the “Maratha Military Landscapes,” a network of forts, for the UNESCO World Heritage list for 2024-25.
• The 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will be held from July 21 to 31, 2024, in New Delhi, India.
• Gujarat’s Garba Dance is now on UNESCO’s ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ list.
• Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) is recognized as one of the ‘World’s Most Beautiful Airports’ and won the ‘World Special Prize for an Interior 2023’ by UNESCO’s Prix Versailles.
• 'Garba of Gujarat' is added to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity by UNESCO.
• Garba dance is the 15th intangible cultural heritage of India to join this list.
• Kozhikode in Kerala is now a UNESCO 'City of Literature' and Gwalior a 'City of Music' in the latest UNESCO Creative Cities Network list.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• Formation: 16 November 1945
• Headquarters: Paris, France
• Director-General: Audrey Azoulay (France)
• Member countries: 193
• India has 42 World Heritage Sites.

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