Argentina’s former detention site added to Unesco World Heritage list

Students visit the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory on the day it was declared an Unesco World Heritage Site (Rodrigo Abd/AP/PA)

Argentina on Tuesday welcomed a decision by a United Nations conference to include a former clandestine detention and torture centre as a World Heritage site.

A Unesco conference in Saudi Arabia agreed to include the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory in the list of sites “considered to be of outstanding value to humanity”, marking a rare instance in which a museum of memory related to recent history is designated to the list.