The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco.
The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco.
More than two dozen governments are backing an initiative to expel Syria from UNESCO’s human-rights committee, a move that would mark the first time the United Nation’s culture and education agency has taken such targeted steps to remove a member.
The U.S., the U.K., Japan, Italy, Chile, Kuwait and Qatar are among 26 countries supporting the initiative after Syria was elected in November to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization panel that judges human-rights complaints. Over half the countries signing on to the proposal are members of UNESCO’s 58-member executive board.
