As an advisory body of the World Heritage Committee, ICOMOS provides advice and makes recommendations on all matters related to cultural and mixed heritage, including the inscription and monitoring of the state of conservation of properties. The World Heritage Committee deliberates and then makes a decision based on these recommendations.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 14 June officially published the Policy on Cultural Heritage of the Office of the Prosecutor in an effort to act decisively to protect cultural heritage in times of war and conflict and mindful that wilful attacks on cultural heritage are a pervasive feature of conflict.

As part of the activities developed in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2018 between ICOMOS International and the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage (ARC-WH), a ‘First Workshop on Integrating the Policy Document on World Heritage and Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda into the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Arab States’ has been held online on 31 May, 1-2, 7-8 & 10 June 2021.

Modern Heritage of Africa launched a Call for papers for the International Symposium on Modern Heritage of Africa on 22 – 24 September 2021, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

ICOMOS is pleased to announce that it has been selected for official partnership with the New European Bauhaus Initiative.

ICOMOS has issued a statement on 8^th June 2021 in light of the conflict in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory.