Cultural Heritage and War: A Video Report on Libya
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The destruction of objects of cultural or religious heritage is a signature feature of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. That is the assessment offered by a recent United…
Police have arrested two men in Barcelona, Spain for their alleged role in financing ISIS terrorism by acquiring and selling blood antiquities. Georgi Kantchev of The Wall Street Journal reported…
ICE returned smuggled antiquities to Afghanistanduring a photo-op held in Washington, DC in 2013.No prosecutions resulted from the case. Newly obtained documents released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveal…
It is no surprise that New York’s Court of Appeals decided last week that a “spoils of war” legal theory could not be upheld. That state’s highest court ruled that…
A United Nations resolution aimed at cementing police and judicial cooperation in the fight against terrorism unanimously passed the Security Council yesterday.Resolution 2322’s language, in part, focuses on cultural property…
Iraq has been identified as a source of conflict antiquities, which is why the International Council of Museums refreshed its Red List of endangered Iraqi cultural property in June 2014…