Between November 2020 and March 2021, ICOMOS Canada will serve as the Secretariat for the ICOMOS Working Group on Indigenous heritage. As the Secretariat, ICOMOS Canada will convene stakeholders internationally to explore guiding principles and prepare a Terms of Reference that will guide the ICOMOS working group on Indigenous heritage for the years to come.

ICOMOS Canada has been organising webinar discussions in support of the work of the Indigenous Heritage Working Group. The third and last discussion will take place on 19 January 2021, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM EST, on the theme: Authenticity and Outstanding Value

Dear ICOMOS members,

The 20^th ICOMOS General Assembly is now only one month away – it’s time to register and study the working documents!

As you know, the General Assembly will take place through 3 online sessions on:

• Thursday, 3 December 2020 – starting 12:00 pm (noon) until approx. 13:00 or 14:00 CET (In accordance with art. 9.c. of the ICOMOS Statutes, “should the voting members present and represented come from less than the required third of National Committees, the General Assembly shall be adjourned for one hour and reconvened, after which its decisions shall be valid regardless of the number of National Committees.”)
• Monday, 7 December 2020 – starting 12:00 pm (noon) until approx. 14:00 pm CET
• Wednesday, 16 December 2020 - starting 12:00 pm (noon) until approx. 13:30 pm CET

Registration

All ICOMOS members wishing to attend the 20^th General Assembly must register for all the sessions they plan to attend by filling out this online form by latest 1 December.

The team at Our Common Diginity and Icomos-Brasil are looking forward to offering a week-long workshop on Human Rights and Heritage Management 9-13 November 2020,  where we will focus on what can be considered the two most difficult aspects of human rights theory: (1) how do we understand "culture" and (2) how can we deal with the fact that some rights are group-based or collective and others are individual? How can we balance conflicts between the rights of different communities?

Dear ICOMOS members,

As required by Art 9b of the ICOMOS Statutes, please find here the provisional agenda for the 20^th ICOMOS General Assembly which will take place through 3 online sessions on:

• Thursday, 3 December 2020 – starting 12:00 pm(noon) until approx. 13:00 pm CEST
• Monday, 7 December 2020 – starting 12:00 pm(noon) until approx. 14:00 pm CEST
• Wednesday, 16 December 2020 - starting 12:00 pm(noon) until approx. 13:30 pm CEST

Australia ICOMOS invites our global colleagues to join a special Marker Event to acknowledge the excellent work and wonderful support for the 20th Triennial General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of ICOMOS that could not be hosted in Sydney in 2020.

The GA2020 Marker Event will be held online on Wednesday 7 October 2020 from 8.00pm AEDT (Sydney / Canberra), 11:00 am CEST (Paris), 5:00 am EDT (New York).

You will find below the working documents for the 20th Triennial General Assembly, which will take place online (via Zoom) from 3 to 16 December 2020.