The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage was adopted by UNESCO in 2001.
The Convention provides effective professional guidelines on how to intervene with and research underwater cultural heritage sites.
Several diving tour companies are specialized in the organization of underwater touristic excursions to discover their underwater cultural heritage.
To further shore up protection, in November 2001 UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
This meeting was held in the framework of UNESCO's strategy to promote the Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention in the Arab states.
The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage was adopted by the UNESCO General Conference on 2 November 2001.
It helps to protect underwater cultural heritage from pillaging and commercial exploitation and achieves legal safeguarding wherever a site is located.
The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 2001, entered into force in January 2009.
Our underwater cultural heritage is under the increasing threat of looters, treasure and souvenir hunters, the lack of legal protection, and natural disasters.
This site demonstrates the value of collaboration between archaeologists, local community members and divers to enhance our knowledge of underwater cultural heritage in Scotland.
With its ratification, France strengthens the application and implementation of widely recognized legal and scientific standards in the protection of the underwater cultural heritage.
It also reflects the growing recognition of the need to ensure the same attention to underwater cultural heritage as that already accorded to land-based heritage.
To ensure that they are well-protected and publicly recognized, UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage on 2 November 2001.
The Convention also reflects the growing recognition of the need to ensure the same protection to underwater cultural heritage as that already accorded to land-based heritage.
With the speeding up of research of submerged landscapes underwater cultural heritage comes more and more in the focus of the States of the Gulf region.
The scientific colloquium will bring together reputed international scholars, representatives from archaeological services and concerned enterprises for a high-level scientific exchange on the imminent factors impacting underwater cultural heritage.
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Mr Daniel Rondeau, has submitted today the instruments of the ratification of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage to the UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova.
Underwater cultural heritage refers to all traces of human existence having a cultural, historical or archaeological character, which have been partially or totally under water, periodically or continuously, for at least 100 years.
To showcase the threatened underwater heritage and raise public awareness, the first ever exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region on Underwater Cultural Heritage was recently opened at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok, Thailand.
From ancient shipwrecks to underwater caves, this photo exhibition is an insight to the diversity of the underwater cultural heritage and its astonishing condition of conservation through the centuries of time, or even millennia.
The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage ensures comprehensive protection of underwater cultural heritage through clear legal and operational rules, in addition to establishing a scientific work methodology in its Annex.
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The Director-General concluded by encouraging the Russian authorities to upsacale their cooperation with UNESCO, notably by ratifying the Conventions for the diversity of cultural expressions, the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage as well as the underwater cultural heritage.
It is with great pleasure that we now welcome 2013 with new original projects on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Holocaust Education and the 20 years of World Press Freedom Day, as well as translations into different languages of exciting titles.
The story of this loss does serve to illustrate the need to protect underwater cultural heritage and to adopt appropriate scientific guidelines for its research and treatment, through the ratification and implementation of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage .
This UNESCO sub-regional meeting, gathering participants from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, aims at discussing the development of underwater archaeology in the region, capacity-building, research, cooperation and the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001), UNESCO prepares in cooperation with the Catholic University of Leuven a regional meeting for Europe and a scientific colloquium on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, from 13 to 15 December 2011.
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The training not only will develop capacities and provide participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to properly register, preserve and manage the underwater cultural heritage, but will also help to raise awareness on the importance and potential of underwater archaeology as well as of the need to ratify the 2001 Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
The workshop stressed the importance of Database's objective as an instrument to protect cultural heritage, by fighting against looting, theft, illegal export and import in the light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and of the UNESCO Convention of 2001 on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.
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