August 22, 2024
…a phenomenal success – both in consciousness-raising within the collector community and in locating and bringing over 500 important sacred objects to tribal communities in New Mexico and Arizona in…
April 28, 2024
…a Cambodian government agency, the Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor (APSARA National Authority) on January 30, 2024. While conservation work on other sites will be completed by…
April 27, 2024
…statement, Williams stressed Homeland Security’s dedication to repatriating objects to source countries, saying to “cultural institutions” that staff and collectors should “come to see us before we come to see…
May 24, 2017
…to ATADA. Today really is about listening and hearing viewpoints from different communities.” Brian Vallo, director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of Advanced Research (SAR) said…
November 26, 2018
…were guarding the site so no pictures could be taken. [i] Sources include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian–led_intervention_in_Yemen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016–present), For a 2018 map of armed forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Yemeni_Civil_War#/media/File:Yemeni_Civil_War.svg [ii] https://www.bic.org/situation-in-yemen/reports-situation-yemen, https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/houthis-arrest-baha-i-spokesman-in-yemen-1.780142 , http://mwatana.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/UNIVERSAL-PERIODIC-REVIEW-OF-YEMEN-2.pdf …
September 25, 2017
…views expressed in the Commentary above are solely those of the author and are neither endorsed nor expressed by or on behalf of CCP. Sources: http://www.postandcourier.com/politics/confederate-flag-will-temporarily-fly-again-at-south-carolina-statehouse/article_fe0b52da-6340-11e7-8375-cfceff6473dc.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html?mcubz=0&_r=0 https://www.voanews.com/a/groups-protesting-in-charlottesville/3985479.html http://time.com/4904510/donald-trump-twitter-confederate-statues/…
January 4, 2018
…support “prevention training, implementation of emergency safeguarding plans, compiling inventories, [and] digitizing collections.” (p24) Many observers would agree that this kind of training will not only help to circumvent cultural…
February 13, 2018
…among the broader Jewish community, and especially among exiled Jews from the Middle East. Yemen is just the latest nation to assert its government’s ownership and control over the heritage…
October 12, 2018
…had been smuggled, describing the objects as stolen cultural patrimony “so small that they were easy to hide in luggage.” Unsurprisingly, the actual circumstances of the seizure were not discussed….
April 23, 2020
…years for a little less than $3 billion. What Mes Aynak will look like as an open-pit mine. Credit www.Saving Mes Aynak. The Times story was full of record-breaking details:…