World Heritage Project

World Heritage Site

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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated--and confirmed--for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 state parties (countries) which are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a fixed term [1] (similar to the United Nation's Security Council).

The programme aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The programme was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 182 state parties have ratified the convention.

As of 2006, a total of 830 sites are listed: 644 cultural, 162 natural, and 24 mixed properties, in 138 states parties. UNESCO references each World Heritage Site with a unique identification number; but new inscriptions often include previous sites now listed as part of larger descriptions. As a result, the numbering system currently ends above 1200, even though there are fewer on the actual list.

Each World Heritage Site is the property of the country on whose territory the site is located, but it is considered in the interest of the international community to preserve each site for future generations of humankind. The protection and conservation of these sites are a concern of all the World Heritage countries.

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Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites

(old article, done deal now.)

U.N. TRIES LAND GRAB IN U.S.

In an astonishing discovery the Kentucky State Legislature learned that the future of thousands of its citizens is in jeopardy, and a large portion of its land as well. In a move that would force families from their homes and private property, legislators uncovered a plan by the United Nations to implement the Convention of Biological Diversity. The possibility for this kind of planned disaster happening is real enough that Kentucky lawmakers passed a formal resolution May 29, 1997 stating their opposition to the inclusion of any private or public lands in Kentucky coming under control of the United Nations.

The grassroots organization, Constitutional Campaign Committee, issued the following statement condemning the land forfeiture, "The present Administration of the Federal Government plans to give thousands of square miles of Kentucky land to the control of agents of the United Nations. This action is being taken without permission of the Kentucky Legislature and without the advice and consent of our elected members of Congress. Even worse, this plan is being quietly implemented without the consent and, in many cases, without even the knowledge, of the citizens of Kentucky."

THE BIGGER PICTURE

In an interview with The WINDS, State Representative Virgil Moore said the plan would involve surrender of approximately 35 to 40 percent of the total land in the state and involve hundreds of thousands of families. The plan, however, is not localized to the state of Kentucky according to a map referred to by the State Legislator. It also involves the states of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The map is titled, "Existing and Proposed Biosphere and Wildlands for the Central Appalachian Mountains."... continued at link above.

New-world-order zoning may be coming to your town - World Trade Organization activity

Insight on the News, March 18, 2002 by John Elvin

Wouldn't it make life interesting if, in order to comment on proposed development projects in your neighborhood, you had to make a pilgrimage to Brussels, Belgium, or Bern, Switzerland? Protests, or for that matter endorsements, might be reduced to a minimum. The idea may sound preposterous, but that was never an impediment to advocates of global government.

John Sewell, former mayor of Toronto, believes that just such a procedure is envisioned by a panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The municipal powers we all take for granted are being lifted, Sewell writes in The Eye, a Canadian news and entertainment Website (www.eye.net), and will be taken over by the world's largest corporations. The mechanics of corporate globalization are being arranged to allow companies to challenge the ability of local councils to zone land, impose closing hours on retail establishments and regulate and license services, he observes. Why so? Because such measures are a restraint on unfettered trade.

Sewell cites leaked secret minutes of the Working Party on Domestic Regulations, a WTO panel meeting in Geneva, as his source of information. He says the matter has gone beyond the theoretical; it is included in the preliminary draft of the General Agreement on Trade and Services, to be finalized in June. While it would appear that the panel is focusing only on finding ways around local rules that might stand in the way of very large projects, Sewell makes the point that the policy could be applied to smaller projects as well. He contends it will be the end of local decisionmaking.

The situation may seem vaguely familiar to those who recall the uproar a few years back when the United Nations set out to pre-empt local land-control powers with biosphere reserves and international heritage sites. It seems possible that these are all moves in the same game, particularly when you add in a proposal that has been put forward to move the WTO into the United Nations structure.