Miniature Artists Call on UNESCO to Include Afghanistan on Heritage List December 28,2020 KABUL - Afghan Miniature artists have urged the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to include Afghanistan in its Persian Miniature cultural heritage listings alongside other countries in the region. A number of university professors, writers, and miniature art teachers on Saturday staged a protest in western Herat province, urging the government to take action in this regard. This comes after UNESCO’s Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee last week listed Persian Miniature as intangible heritage of Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan was left off the list.