ABSTRACT
World Heritage sites are chosen by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and a panel of experts drawn from international heritage organisations. International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is named in the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention as one of the three formal advisory bodies to the World Heritage Committee, along with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), based at Gland, and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), based in Rome. UNESCO was established on November 16, 1945, as a response to the Second World War. It was partly founded on the model of the former Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (CAME), which had been established in London in 1942 and had brought together the interests of the Paris based International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation and the Geneva based International Bureau of Education.
