World Heritage Committee

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The World Heritage Committee is a committee which selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, monitors the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties. It is composed of 21 states parties^[1] that are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a four-year term.^[2]

According to the World Heritage Convention, a committee member's term of office is six years, however many State's Parties choose to voluntarily limit their term to four years, in order to give other States Parties an opportunity to serve.^[2] All members elected at the 15th General Assembly (2005) voluntarily chose to reduce their term of office from six to four years.^[2]

Contents

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  1 Sessions
  


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  2 Members
  


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  3 See also
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Sessions

See also: List of World Heritage sites by year of inscription

The World Heritage Committee meets once a year to discuss the management of existing World Heritage sites, and accept nominations by countries.^[2]

Session[3]	Year	Date	Host city
1	1977	27 June–1 July	Paris
2	1978	5 September–8 September	Washington, D.C.
3	1979	22 October–26 October	Cairo & Luxor
4	1980	1 September–5 September	Paris
5	1981	26 October–30 October	Sydney
6	1982	13 December–17 December	Paris
7	1983	5 December–9 December	Florence
8	1984	29 October–2 November	Buenos Aires
9	1985	2 December–6 December	Paris
10	1986	24 November–28 November	Paris
11	1987	7 December–11 December	Paris
12	1988	5 December–9 December	Brasília
13	1989	11 December–15 December	Paris
14	1990	7 December–12 December	Banff
15	1991	9 December–13 December	Carthage
16	1992	7 December–14 December	Santa Fe
17	1993	6 December–11 December	Cartagena
18	1994	12 December–17 December	Phuket
19	1995	4 December–9 December	Berlin
20	1996	2 December–7 December	Mérida
21	1997	1 December–6 December	Naples
22	1998	30 November–5 December	Kyoto
23	1999	29 November–4 December	Marrakech
24	2000	27 November–2 December	Cairns
25	2001	11 December–16 December	Helsinki
26	2002	24 June–29 June	Budapest
27	2003	30 June–5 July	Paris
28	2004	28 June–7 July	Suzhou
29	2005	10 July–17 July	Durban
30	2006	8 July–16 July	Vilnius
31	2007	23 June–1 July	Christchurch
32	2008	2 July–10 July	Quebec City
33	2009	22 June–30 June	Seville
34	2010	25 July–3 August	Brasília
35	2011	19 June–29 June	Paris
36	2012	25 June–5 July	Saint Petersburg
37	2013	17 June–27 June	Phnom Penh
38	2014	15 June–25 June	Doha
39	2015	28 June–8 July	Bonn
40	2016	10 July–20 July	Istanbul
41	2017	2 July–12 July	Kraków
42	2018	24 June–4 July	Manama
43	2019	30 June–10 July	Baku

Members

Members of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Member state[4]	Mandate
Angola	2015–2019
Australia	2017–2021
Azerbaijan	2015–2019
Bahrain	2017–2021
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2017–2021
Brazil	2017–2021
Burkina Faso	2015–2019
China	2017–2021
Cuba	2015–2019
Guatemala	2017–2021
Hungary	2017–2021
Indonesia	2015–2019
Kuwait	2015–2019
Kyrgyzstan	2017–2021
Norway	2017–2021
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2017–2021
Spain	2017–2021
Tunisia	2015–2019
Tanzania	2015–2019
Uganda	2017–2021
Zimbabwe	2015–2019
Total	21

See also

• Lists of World Heritage sites

References

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   ^ According to the UNESCO World Heritage website, States Parties are countries that signed and ratified The World Heritage Convention. As of March 2013, there were a total of 190 State Parties.
   


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   ^ "Sessions". UNESCO World Heritage Site.
   


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   ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "UNESCO World Heritage Centre – 40th session of the Committee". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
   

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to World Heritage Committee.

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  UNESCO World Heritage portal – official website (in English) (in French)
  


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  The World Heritage List – official searchable list of all Inscribed Properties

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