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Kerala Heritage Rescue Initiative
August 24 , 2018
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- 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.
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