CULTURE

Crisis in Iraq

International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Iraq

First Cultural Forum for Iraq (26-27 May 2004)
Appeal  (English - Arabic) - Motion (English - Arabic)


War in Iraq and its consequences for Cultural Heritage - Editorial by Mounir Bouchenaki, Assistant Director-General for Culture.

Legal instruments

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Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage - 1972
    adopted at Paris, 16 November 1972 
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Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property - 1970
    Signed in Paris, 14 November 1970 
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UNESCO Declaration concerning the Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage - 2003
    Adopted by the thirty-second session of the UNESCO General Conference, Paris, 17 October 2003 
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