ICOMOS is issuing a worldwide Heritage Alert, our most consequential expressional of concern, to amplify awareness of the threat to the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) Old Campus and draw urgent attention to the eminent risk of loss of the internationally significant buildings that make up the cultural landscape designed by Louis I. Kahn with his team of Indian architects, landscape architects and engineers.

The 20th ICOMOS General Assembly held in December 2020 adopts a resolution concerning the in situ preservation of antiquities at the Venizelos Metro Station in Thessaloniki, Greece.

 Dowload the letter sent to the Hellenic authorities and the full Heritage Alert.

Photo Credits: Flickr/Konstantinos Stampoulis

The Emerging Professionals Working Group are delighted to publish the ‘Emerging Professional Working Group Information Pack’, on the occasion of the 20th ICOMOS Triennial General Assembly 2020 in English, French and Spanish. 

ICOMOS Latvia, in cooperation with the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Latvia and the ICOMOS working group Our Common Dignity - Rights-based Approaches (OCB-RBA) held on 30 October 2020 an international online scientific conference “The importance of human rights in the heritage management: values, rights and heritage among the stakeholders’ interests”. The aim of the conference was to draw attention to the importance of human rights in the management of cultural heritage, as well as to look at Latvia's experience with issues connected to cultural heritage and stakeholders.

Dear ICOMOS Members,

As you know, following the first two rounds of the elections at the 20^th ICOMOS General Assembly, the following four Vice Presidents had been elected:

The planet is at a crossroads where business as usual is no longer on option. This week the 20^th ICOMOS General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency.