1. Smithsonian/CHCC Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Workshop

   The U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) held a virtual training workshop for law enforcement officials from the United States to enhance their knowledge of cultural property of Indigenous and Native Peoples of North America and build their capacity to protect Indigenous heritage by disrupting its trafficking.

2. Cultural Heritage Coordination Committee Meeting

   The Interagency Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee conducted its third quarterly meeting. The meeting was chaired by Scott Weinhold, Senior Bureau Official of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which chairs the committee and serves as its secretariate.   

3. From Vision to Impact: Women Entrepreneurs Flourish in Embassy Mexico’s National Pitch Competition

   In 2023 and 2024, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and U.S. Embassy Mexico City collaborated with AT&T Mexico on ECA’s Academy for Women Entrepreneurs’ (AWE) local and national pitch competitions.

4. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Galt’s Remarks on Protecting and Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Middle East - Arab American Day Keynote

   Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Galt’s Keynote Remarks “Protecting and Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Middle East” Organization of American States on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 6:30 p.m., 3-5 minutes

5. U.S. Returns Lost Treasures of Korea

   Priceless treasures from Korea’s Joseon Dynasty are on a journey home, after the U.S. government returned two royal seals to dignitaries from the Republic of Korea during a June 30 ceremony in Washington.

6. U.S. returns 523 artifacts to Mexico

   The U.S. government has returned to the Mexican government 523 pre-Hispanic era archaeological pieces a Texas man smuggled into the U.S. and tried to sell.

7. Cultural Heritage Game Jam Inspires Global Creativity and Innovation

   847 People from 72 Countries Develop 115 Videogames

8. Conflict Antiquities: Panel 2 Video

   

   Conflict Antiquities: Forging a Public/Private Response to Save the Endangered Patrimony of Iraq and Syria (Panel 2 Video)

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