As he endures Tehran's grim Evin prison, he is a finalist this week for Spain's coveted Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, given to groups or individuals for encouraging and promoting the "scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind's universal heritage". He was nominated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
Earlier in the week English Heritage asked people to nominate women whose lives could be celebrated with a blue plaque on a London building.
A new American ambassador has been nominated to Baghdad as well, to replace Zalmay Khalilzad, a Sunni of Afghan heritage, who has been nominated to represent the United States in the United Nations.
Soon after taking office, Mr. Duruer initiated a citywide beautification program aimed at securing Unesco World Heritage designation (Mardin was nominated but turned down in 2002).
The purpose of this paper is to examine the employment of qualitative research methodology within the framework of analysis of the way the World Heritage Sites located in the Greek territory are promoted; this is outstanding heritage that has been nominated to the World Heritage List of UNESCO used to promote a specific image of Greece nationally and internationally.
The Lake District is to be nominated for world heritage status.
The trip offers the definitive view of the city's world famous waterfront that has been nominated for world heritage status.
The shattered slate quarry landscape of north-west Wales is to be nominated for world heritage status, a distinction enjoyed by sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and the abandoned southern African kingdom of Mapungubwe.
Now, the floodgates have opened, there are a few other British silent films I would like to nominate for representing "documentary heritage of global significance and outstanding universal value".
Ningaloo has been nominated as a world heritage site and the fringing coral reef that forms the centrepiece of the Marine Park extends for 300 km along the coastline.
Thanks to their excellent preservation and their amazing diversity in art, architecture, and skeletons, the Maltese catacombs have been nominated for UNESCO world heritage site status, where they would join the already-listed Neolithic remains from the island country.
