International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) launched Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative to assess damage to rich cultural and built heritage sites in flood-devastated Kerala.
ICOMOS is a global monument conservation body.
The initiative aims at setting up a platform for emergency response to cultural heritage damaged by the floods in Kerala.
The Central Government has declared this calamity of ‘severe nature’.
ICOMOS has also approached International Centre for Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) to partner in post-disaster work.
ICCROM based in Rome (Italy) is an inter-governmental organization dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage worldwide.
ICOMOS is a global monument conservation body (non-government organization), headquartered at Paris in France.
It was founded in 1965 in Warsaw (Poland) as a result of the Venice Charter of 1964.
It is also the advisory body to UNESCO for cultural heritage, in particular for implementation of World Heritage Convention.