Fashionable Village Life: April 2009

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.
UNESCO's World Heritage mission is to:
encourage countries to sign the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of their natural and cultural heritage;
encourage States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List;
encourage States Parties to establish management plans and set up reporting systems on the state of conservation of their World Heritage sites;
help States Parties safeguard World Heritage properties by providing technical assistance and professional training;
provide emergency assistance for World Heritage sites in immediate danger;
support States Parties' public awareness-building activities for World Heritage conservation;
encourage participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage;
encourage international cooperation in the conservation of our world's cultural and natural heritage.

The Administrative part of the Baha'i World Center, located at Mt. Carmel, Haifa Israel.

The World Heritage List includes 878 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
These include 679 cultural , 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties. As of April 2009, 186 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention.

Yesterday,03 April 2009, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization( UNESCO) announced to the world that the Bahai Wold Center have been recognized for their outstanding value to humanity as a whole. The Baha'i properties particularly the Shrines sorrounded with beautifull gardens opened to the public, to the citizens of Israel, tourists and pilgrims from different cities, countries with different religious background, Muslims, Jews, Christians and Bahai'i's came together in one goal to witness and enjoy the beauty of the Baha'i Sacred Places.

THE LIST BELOW ARE THE SITES THAT HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED FROM 2001-2008
Masada
Old City of Acre
White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee