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Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee members, Sept 5, 2024

Cultural Heritage Coordination Committee Meeting

he interagency Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee conducted its third quarterly meeting. They discussed topics such as repatriation of various cultural artifacts in Vanuatu and the current damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage.

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Smithsonian/CHCC Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Workshop

The U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) held a virtual training to enhance knowledge of cultural property of Indigenous and Native Peoples of North America

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United States and India Sign Historic Cultural Property Agreement

The new agreement will prevent illegal cultural property trafficking, facilitate the return of illegally exported items, and promote the lawful exchange of India’s rich cultural heritage for cultural, educational, and scientific purposes.

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Cultural Property Advisory Committee Meeting, September 24-26, 2024

The committee is to review new requests for cultural property import restrictions from Lebanon and Mongolia, and to review the proposed extension of the cultural property agreement with El Salvador.

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The ancient and historic monuments, objects, and archaeological sites of the world enrich and inform today's societies, and help connect us to our cultural origins. The Department's Cultural Heritage Center specializes in the protection and preservation of these irreplaceable resources, working on many fronts to safeguard the patrimony of other countries.

Announcements

Workshop participants in Arequipa, Peru, learn how to handle and inventory cultural objects in their Colonial period churches

November 15, 2014

Arequipa Colonial Church Project, Peru

July 1, 2014

U.S.-Canadian Bilateral Cooperation Project, Toronto, Canada

June 6, 2014

Syria Heritage Sites Inventory

June 3, 2014

Imagery of Archaeological Site Looting in Syria

January 1, 2013

UNESCO’S Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws

March 29, 2007

Cultural Heritage Center Sponsors Regional Workshops

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