UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- carefully selects the properties and they are protected by the 40-year-old World Heritage Convention, ratified by 190 countries.
The United States last year cut off its funding, a contribution that made up 22 percent of the organization's budget. The cutoff was automatic. Congress passed laws in the early 1990s requiring that funds be withdrawn from any United Nations body in which Palestine was voted in as a full member.
Please reinstate funding for this vital world organization. Thank you.
Note: parts of this petition description were taken from a recent report by Christiane Amanpour, Mary-Rose Abraham, David Miller & Mark Monroy.