World Heritage 41 COM

WHC/17/41.COM/2 Paris 26 June / 26 juin 2017

Original: English / French

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'EDUCATION, LA SCIENCE ET LA CULTURE

CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

CONVENTION CONCERNANT LA PROTECTION DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL, CULTUREL ET NATUREL

WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE/ COMITE DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL

Forty-first session / Quarante-et-unième session

Krakow, Poland / Cracovie, Pologne 2 July – 12 July 2017 / 2 juillet – 12 juillet 2017

Item 2 of the Provisional Agenda: Admission of Observers Point 2 de l'ordre du jour provisoire : Admission des Observateurs

2: Admission of Observers / Admission des Observateurs

SUMMARY / RÉSUMÉ

This document consists of two parts:

I. Requests for Observer status

SECTION A: Observer requests received in accordance with Rule 8.3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee;

SECTION B: Organizations invited in accordance with Rule 8.4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee.

II. Draft Decision: 41 COM 2

Ce document comprend deux parties :

I. Demandes de statut d’observateur

SECTION A : Demandes de statut d'observateur reçues en conformité avec l'Article 8.3 du Règlement intérieur du Comité ;

SECTION B : Organisations invitées en conformité avec l’Article 8.4 du Règlement intérieur du Comité.

II. Projet de décision : 41 COM 2

Admission of Observers

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I. REQUESTS FOR OBSERVER STATUS/ DEMANDES DE STATUT D’OBSERVATEUR

SECTION A : List of Observer requests received in accordance with Rule 8.3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee

Liste des demandes de statut d'observateur reçues en conformité avec l'Article 8.3 du Règlement intérieur du Comité

Altay 21 century Informal ecology group Altaly, Barnaul Russian Federation Animal Welfare Institute 900 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003 United States of America Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute Auckland 1010 New Zealand Asian Cultural Landscape Association (ACLA) Society of Heritage Planning & Environmental Health - SHPEH, Seoul National University Republic of Korea Association des biens français patrimoine mondial (ABFPM) 42 rue George Sand BP 40809 37008 TOURS Cedex Association du Paysages et Sites de Mémoire de la Grande Guerre 1 rue de Brissac 75004 Paris Association des Scientifiques Environnementalistes pour un Développement Intégré 19090, Bourse du travail, Médina gounass Dakar Sénégal

Association Workshop for All Beings ul. B. Prusa 1/8 30-109, Kraków Poland Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) PO Box 5815 West End QLD 4101 Belovezhskaya Pushcha Project Belarus BI Rheinpassagen Ardeystrasse 119 44225 Dortmund Federal Republic of Germany Blue Shield Austria Felderstraße 1, Stiege 4/ 2.Stock/ Zi.452 Rathaus 1082 Wien Austria Center for Biological Diversity PO Box 11374 Portland, OR 97211 United States of America Chiang Mai World Heritage Initiative Project Prapokklao rd., Si Phum, Muang Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand ClientEarth Prawnicy dla Ziemi Biodiversity Programme ul. Żurawia 45 00-680 Warszawa Poland

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Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme Hôtel du Département 24 rue Saint-Esprit 63033 Clermont-Ferrand Conservación Humana AC Zacatecas 110 - 1 Colonia Roma Delegación Cuauhtémoc 06700 México, DF México Conservación de Mamiferos Marinos de México (COMARINO) Xochicalco 149-A Col Narvarte CDMX C.P. 03020 Mexico Earthjustice International Program 50 California Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA, 94111 United States of America Environmental Watch on North Caucasus Poselkovaya St. 36 385012 Maikop Russian Federation Engage Liverpool 239 Ellerman Road Liverpool L3 4FG United Kingdom Europa Nostra International Secretariat Lange Voorhout 35 NL – 2514 EC Den Haag The Netherlands Europa University Viadrina of Frankfurt Große Scharrnstrasse 59 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) Feral Republic of Germany Fondation Pro Patrimonio Strada Pictor Verona, 13, Sector 1 Bucarest 010312 Roumanie

Forum for the Protection of the Values of Gjirokastra Akademia e Shkencave Sheshi “Fan Noli””, Tiranë Albania Ghent University, UFO Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35 9000 ghent Belgium GRAHAL Département de la Recherche et des Etudes Département d’Ingénierie patrimoniale 23, Boulevard Poissonnière 75002 PARIS Greenmind Foundation Ul. Kalenska 7 m.33 04-367 Warszawa Poland GSU World Heritage Initiative Department of History Georgia State University P.O. Box 4117 Atlanta GA 30302-4117 United States of America Historic Environment Scotland Longmore House Salisbury Place Edinburgh, EHH9 1SH Scotland United Kingdom ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre PO Box 48777 Sharjah United Arab Emirates International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) No.9 Dengzhuang South Road Haidian District Beijing 100094 Republic of China ICOMOS Belarus 6 Komunalnaya Embankment Minsk 220029 Belarus

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ICOMOS France Palais de Chaillot Avenue Albert 1er de Monaco 75116 Paris ICOMOS ISC CIVVIH Westenriederstrasse 8 D 80331 Muenchen Federal Republic of Germany ICOMOS Israel PO Box 23594 Tel Aviv 51234 Israel US/ICOMOS Directorate 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Third Floor Washington, DC 20036-1531 United States of America ICOMOS Norway c/o Riksantikvaren PO Box 8196 Dep 0034 Oslo Norway ICOMOS Poland The Royal Castle Pl. Zamkowy 4 00 277 Warszawa Poland INALCO Ecole doctorale 2, rue de Lille 75007 Paris Initiative Stadtbildschutz 1030 Wien Marokkanergasse 3/1/42 Austria International Campaign for Tibet Deutschland e.V Schönhauser Allee 163 10435 Berlin Germany The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 10 West 37th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10018 Etats-Unis d’Amérique

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) European Regional Office 64 Boulevard Louis Schmidt 1040 Brussels Belgium Kyushu University 4-9-1 Shiobaru Minami-ku Fukuoka 815-8540 Japan Lake District National Park Authority Murley Moss - Oxenholme Road Kendal, LA9 7RL United Kingdom Lahore Conservation Society 88 G Model Town Lahore 54700 Pakistan Legal and Human Rights Centre Justice Legakingira House Kijitonyama P.O. Box 75254, Dar Es Salaam United Republic of Tanzania Liverpool City Council Development and Investment Cunard Building Water Street, Liverpool L3 1DS United Kingdom Mairie de Nîmes Place de l’Hôtel de Ville 30033 Nîmes CEDEX 9 Mammal Research Institute (MRI) Polish Academy of Sciences Ul. Waszkiewicza 1 17-230 Bialowieza Poland Menschenrechte 3000 e.V P.O. Box 5102 79018 Freiburg Germany Mikisew Cree First Nation Suite A – 8219 Fraser Avenue Fort McMurray, AB T9H 0A2 Canada

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Mission Val de Loire patrimoine mondial 81 rue Colbert BP 4322 37043 TOURS cedex 1 Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences Ul. Wilcza 64 00-679 Warszawa Poland NGO Initiative for St. Andrew’s Passage 04053 Artema Str., 14-A, of 93 Kiev Ukraine Northwest Territory Métis Nation Box 720 Fort Smith Canada Ohrid SOS Citizen Initiative Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Ojcowski Park Narodowy Ojców 9 32-045 Suloszowa Poland Project Kalpa Bali Indonesia Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) Yildiz Sarayi, Seyir Kösku, Barbaros Bulvari, Besiktas 34349 Istanbul Turkey Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation Life Beyond Tourism Palazzo Coppini International Meeting and Study Centre Via del Giglio, 10 50123 Firenze Italy

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) UK Headquarters The Lodge – Sandy Bedfordshire SG19 2DL United Kingdom Russian National World Heritage Committee 115095, Moscow Ul/ Pyatnitskaya, 54/2, PO Box 8 Russian Federation Russian Section of the International Society for Human Rights - ISHR P.O. Box 4 Moscow 109451 Russian Federation Save Lamu P.O. Box 314 Lamu 80500 Kenya Simon Wiesenthal Center International Headquarters 1399 South Roxbury Drive Los Angeles CA 90035-4709 United States of America State of Alabama Department of Tourism State Capitol Montgomery Alabama 36130 United States of America Stichting Werelderfgoed Nederland p/a Postbus 10718 1001 ES Amsterdam The Netherlands Sochi Branch of the Russian Geographical Society Sochi Russian Federation

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Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Europe Section 1133 15th St. NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20005 United States of America Stonehenge Alliance 1 The Old Smithy, Alton Priors Marborough, Wiltshire SN8 4JX United Kingdom University of Groningen Faculty of Spatial Sciences PO Box 800 9700AV Groningen The Netherlands Université Nice Sophia Antipolis Sic Lab Méditérranée Bat Extension, Bureau 213 98 Bd Edouard Herriot B.P. 3209-06204 NICE Cedex 13 University of the Sacred Heart of Tokyo Department of International Studies 4-3-1 Hiroo, Shibuya-Ku Tokyo 150-8938 Japan United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) 5F, 5-44 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima Japan Vienna Provincial Government City Council of the Federal Capital of Vienna A-1082 Wien Austria Ville et Eurométropole Mairie de Strasbourg 1 parc de l’Etoile 67076 STRASBOURG Cedex Waddenvereniging. Droogstraat 3 Postbus 90 8860 AB Harlingen The Netherlands

WOLF Forest Protection Movement Eastern Carpathians Mountains Tribe Ul. Kpt. Nalepku 102 06901 Snina Slovakia World Heritage International (WHI) Silodam 248 1013 AS Amsterdam The Netherlands World Heritage Watch Palais am Festungsgraben 10117 Berlin Federal Republic of Germany Whitsunday Residents Against Dumping (WRAD) PO Box 647 Airlie Beach QLD 4802 Australia Yayasan Orangutan Sumatera Lestari Orangutan Information Centre (YOSL-OIC) Jl. Sembada XVI, Jl Sedap Malam XVIII C No. 10 Kode Pos 20131 Sumatera Utara Indonesia

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SECTION B : Organizations invited in accordance with Rule 8.4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee

Organisations invitées en conformité avec l’Article 8.4 du Règlement intérieur du Comité

1. Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)/ Organisations intergouvernementales (OIG)

African Union Commission P.O. Box 3243 Addis Ababa Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretariat 70 A Jalan Sisingamangaraja Jakarta 12110 Republic of Indonesia

Bureau de Liaison de l'Organisation de Coopération Islamique auprès de l'Unesco 1 rue Miollis 75732 Paris cedex 15

Council of Europe Avenue de l'Europe B.P. 431 R.6 67075 Strasbourg Cedex

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 101153 Rome Italian Republic

Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Avenue des F.A.R., Hay Ryad BP 2275 10104 Rabat Kingdom of Morocco

Organisation arabe pour l’éducation, la culture et les sciences B.P. 1120 Tunis 1003 République tunisienne

Organization of American States 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington DC 20006 United States of America

The World Bank 1818 H Street N.W. Washington DC 20433 United States of America

United Nations First Avenue at 46th Street New York, NY 10017 United States of America

UN Environment United Nations Avenue Gigiri PO BOX 30552, 00100 Nairobi Republic of Kenya

United Nations Foundation 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (Suite 400) Washington DC 20036 United States of America

United Nations World Tourism Organization Capitán Haya 42 28020 Madrid Kingdom of Spain

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2. Other Organizations/ Autres organisations

African Wildlife Foundation African Wildlife Foundation rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland Switzerland African World Heritage Fund P.O. Box 1234 Halfway House, Midrand, 1685 Republic of South Africa Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) P.O. Box 95912 Manama Kingdom of Bahrain Australian Conservation Foundation Level 1 . 60 Leicester Street Carlton Victoria, 3053 Australia Australian Rainforest Conservation Society PO Box 2111 Milton QLD 4064 Australia Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Mount Scopus, PO Box 24046 91240 Jerusalem Israel Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus Konrad Wachsmann Allee 1 03046 Cottbus Federal Republic of Germany Carleton University Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Room 5207, Canal Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Centre on the Economics of Culture and World Heritage Studies” Lungodora Siena 100, 10153 Torino Italian Republic Chinese Academy of Sciences No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District Beijing 100094 Republic of China Convenio Andrés Bello Calle 93B N°17-19 Oficina 402 Bogotá Republic of Colombia Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 413, Saint Jacques Street (suite 800) Montreal QC H2Y 1N9 Canada Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) CMS Secretariat United Nations Premises Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10 53113 Bonn Federal Republic of Germany

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) International Environment House 11 Chemin des Anémones CH-1219 Châtelaine Geneva Swiss Confederation

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – EHESS Institut français d'études anatoliennes (IFEA) M. Julien Boucly 190-198 avenue de France 75013 Paris France

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Environment for the people and Regions Mrs. Vanya Bizheva 73, Yarvorov, Sofia 1110 Bulgaria Environment Tasmania The Conservation Council GPO Box 1073 Hobart 7001 Australia European University of Viadrina Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Postfach 1786 15207 Frankfurt (Oder) Federal Republic of Germany European Union to UNESCO 12, avenue d’Eylau 75116 Paris Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Headquarters Viale delle Terme di Caracalla lie00153 Rome Italian Republic The Getty Conservation Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 700 Los Angeles California CA 90049-1684 United States of America Global Witness 3 Stirling Road London SW9 9EF United Kingdom Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaborative-GVTC ADRA-Rwanda offices on NO 11641 Nyarutarama Road PO Box 6626, Kigali Rwanda Greenpeace International Otthno Heldringstraat 5 1066 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands

Greenpeace Russia Leningradsky prospect, b.1 Moscow 125040 Russia Heritage Management Consultants The View, Triq Cens I-Gharus Ghajnsielem Malta HERITY HERITY c/o DRI Ente Interregionale Via Emanuele Filiberto,17 00185 Roma Italy Ilocos Norte Heritage Conservation Society 33 Del Rosario St. Brgy 4, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte The Philippines Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington D C 20577 United States of America International Council for Science (ICSU) 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie 75016 Paris International Council of Museums (ICOM) 1 rue Miollis 75015 Paris UNESCO House International Union of Architects (IUA) Tour Maine Montparnasse BP 158 33 Avenue du Maine 75755 Paris Cedex 15 International Center of Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094 China

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International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC) PO Box 106 Newlands 7725 Cape Town South Africa Koç University Department of Archaeology & History of Art, College of Social Sciences and Humanities Rumelifeneri Mh., 34450 İstanbul Turquie League of Arab States Tahrir Square P.O. Box 11642 Cairo Republic of Egypt Library Strategies International 312 North Carolina Ave SE 20003 Washington D.C. United States of America Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Japan National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Ueno Park 13-43, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8713 2-9-1 Nijo-cho, Nara-city Japan Natural Heritage Protection Fund Viborgskaya, 8-3 Noscow 125212 Russian Federation The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) 15 rue Saint-Nicolas Québec, G1K 1M8 Canada

Pacific Regional Environment Programme Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme P.O. Box 240, Apia Independent State of Samoa Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - United Nations 2 UN Plaza Room DC2-1454 New York, NY, 10017 United States of America The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (RAMSAR) Ramsar Secretariat Rue Mauverney 28 CH-1196 Gland Swiss Confederation Regional Centre for World Heritage in Zacatecas Regional World Heritage Institute Avenida Juan de Tolosa # 831 C.P. 98000 Colonia Centro Histórico Zacatecas, Zac. México RC (Ricca Cristofol) Heritage 7 rue du Laos 75015 PARIS France Rivers without Boundaries 660017 Krasnoyarsk, P.O. Box 6066, Russia SEK International University Avda. Jose Arrieta 10000 Penalolen Santiago Chile

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South-East Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Malakul Centenary Building, (4th Floor) 920 Sukhumvit Road Klongtoey, Prakanong Bangkok 10110 Kingdom of Thailand TERRE Policy Centre 7 Hemdatta Ap 38 Mrutyunjay Clny, Kothrud Pune 411038. India The Sekaiisan Research Institute

3-4-3，Misuzugaoka-Midori，Saeki-ku,

HiroShima City, Japan 731-5113 The Wilderness Society 130 Davey Street Hobart, Tasmania 7000 Australia Think Heritage! P.O. Box 23940, Muharraq Kingdom of Bahrain University College Dublin School of Biology and Environmental Science UCD World Heritage Programme University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland University of Deakin 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne VIC 3125 Australia University of Kadir Has Department of Architecture Cibali, Kadir Has Ünv., 34083 Fatih/İstanbul Turquie

University of Lucerne School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Frohburgstrasse 3 6002 Lucerne Swiss Confederation University of Minnesota 145 Rapson Hall 89 Church Street SE Minneapolis, MN55455 United States of America University of Montréal Faculté de l’aménagement 2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4 Canada

University of Stanford Main Quad, Building 50 Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 United States of America University of Tsinghua 701A, n°8 Zhongguancun East Road Beijing 100083 P.R. China University of Tsukuba Kasuga Plaza 3rd floor, 1-8-3 Kasuga, Tsukuba City 305-0821 Ibaraki Japan United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) UNFCCC secretariat Haus Carstanjen Martin-Luther-King-Strasse 8 53175 Bonn Federal Republic of Germany United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) UNCCD Secretariat P.O. Box 260129 D-53153 Bonn Federal Republic of Germany

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Wildlife Conservation Society 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 United States of America Wildlife Institute of India Chandrabani, Dehradun (Uttarakhand). India World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (WHITRAP) 3F Wen Yuan Building, Tongji University 1239 Siping road 200092 Shanghai Republic of China World Heritage Site Office Economic Development and Culture, Level 5, Zone A, Pydar House Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall TR1 1XU England

World Monuments Fund 350 Fifth Avenue (Suite 2412) New York, NY 10118-2494 United States of America World Wide Fund for Nature WWF International Avenue du Mont Blanc 1196 Gland Swiss Confederation

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II. DRAFT DECISION / PROJET DE DECISION

Draft Decision: 41 COM 2

The World Heritage Committee,

1. Taking into consideration Rule 8 (Observers) of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee,

2. Authorizes the participation in the 41st session, as observers, of the representatives of the international governmental organizations (IGOs), international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), non- governmental organizations (NGOs), permanent observer missions to UNESCO and non profit-making institutions in the fields covered by the Convention, listed in Part I of the present document.

Projet de décision : 41 COM 2

Le Comité du patrimoine mondial,

1. Prenant en considération l'Article 8 (observateurs) du Règlement intérieur du Comité,

2. Autorise la participation à la 41e session, en qualité d'observateur, des représentants des Organisations gouvernementales internationales (OGI), des Organisations non gouvernementales internationales (ONGI), des Organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), des missions permanentes d'observation auprès de l'UNESCO et des institutions à but non lucratif dans les domaines visés par la Convention, mentionnés dans la Partie I du présent document.

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