Overview

• UNESCO inscribed 26 new World Heritage Sites during its July session in Paris across cultural, natural and mixed categories.
• The committee added sites in Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi and Sierra Leone and removed Abu Mena, Ghadamès and Madagascar’s rainforests from its World Heritage in Danger list.
• About one-third of the entries highlight prehistoric sites such as France’s Carnac megaliths, Australia’s Murujuga rock art and a palaeolandscape in the UAE.
• The committee recognized Tuol Sleng, Choeung Ek and the M-13 complex in Cambodia as memorials to Khmer Rouge atrocities.
• Delegates approved a 1,545-square-mile South Africa–Mozambique park expansion shortly before the United States formally withdrew from UNESCO.