Through US ICOMOS, ICOMOS has been actively involved in the consultation launched by the World Bank to re-write its policies regarding environmental and social development and assess the role of cultural heritage in managing these issues.

Water & Heritage

Material, conceptual and spiritual connections
Edited by Willem J.H. Willems (✝) & Henk P.J. van Schaik | 2015

ICOMOS France is organizing an information session and discussion about the cultural heritage at risk in Syria and Iraq, Wednesday, 22 April 2015, from 9 am to 13 pm, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris. 

Deadline for registration: 17 April 2015 (places are subject to the room size)

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Launched by the Director General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova on 28 March, the purpose of the #Unite4Heritage campaign is to build support for the protection of heritage where it is threatened by sectarianism and extreme violence.

According to the new ICOMOS Statutes, annual General Assemblies will take place on the same occasion as the annual Advisory Committee meetings. The agenda of the annual General Assembly focuses on: receiving the reports of the ICOMOS President and Treasurer on the management by the Board and the health and financial situation of the association; and approving the annual report and accounts and discharging the Board, as well as voting next year’s budget.

All other matters such as adoption of doctrinal texts, elections of the Board and officers, conferring of Honorary membership, voting the ICOMOS General Programme and budgetary guidelines for the next triennium, as well as proposing resolutions for adoption by ICOMOS continue to be dealt with by the triennial General Assembly.