From Chile: The Human Rights Archive of Chile. Originating from several collections, it includes material from human rights organizations active during the military dictatorship (1973 to 1989), notably press clippings about human rights abuses from 1974 to 1990, (arrests, political executions, banishments, torture and disappearances), and an important photo register of nearly 1,000 of the people who disappeared during the dictatorship.

From Germany: Illuminated manuscripts from the Ottonian period produced in the monastery of Reichenau (Lake Constance) for Emperor Otto III (983-1002) and for his successor Heinrich II (1002-1024). This dispersed set of 10 manuscripts, which survived the upheavals of an entire millennium, epitomizes book illustration of the Ottonian period in Germany.

From Luxembourg: The "Family of Man" photographic exhibition mounted by the photographer Edward J. Steichen in 1955 for the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). It was donated by the U.S. government to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and is preserved in the Clervaux Museum.

From Mexico: The original cellulose nitrate negative of the 1950 film "Los olvidados," released in English as "The Young and the Damned," directed by Spanish-Mexican director Luis Bunuel. It had been lost for 20 years and is now preserved in Mexico City, in the vaults of Filmoteca of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

From the Netherlands: The archives of the Dutch East India Company. Founded in 1602, the Dutch East India Company was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Between 1602 and 1796, the company sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. The archive has 25 million pages of records about political, economic, cultural, religious and social circumstances produced by company officials stationed in outposts on its trade routes.

From Poland: The 21 Demands, which documents the birth of the Solidarity trade union. These political demands, made by the Strike Committee in August 1980, in Gdansk, led to the creation of Solidarity — the first free trade union within the Communist bloc — and marked a watershed in the history of the Communist bloc.

There's also a separate World Heritage List. Isn't it nice to know the United States has resumed paying its fair share of contributions to UNESCO?