All week we are looking at the United Nations’ vital agencies. Let us know what you consider are the biggest successes and failures,using the form belowIn the same week Unesco has been urged to focus on two world heritage sites under very different threats, campaigners in Liverpool are outraged that the council has voted for the demolition of a range of charming but very battered buildings, and including the 1912 Futurist cinema in the name of regeneration. Meanwhile,a black Islamic State flag has been flying from the pediment of a dazzling Roman ruin at Palmyra in Syria – and news has come of the decapitation of the site’s guardian and destruction of temple structures.
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Source: theguardian.com