Cultural heritage under attack

ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog · May 19, 2021 · 8m

The destruction of cultural heritage in recent years has been the most significant since the Second World War, affecting movable and immovable property as well as intangible cultural heritage, archives, and documentary heritage. In many armed conflicts, the damage is no longer just collateral; cultural property is also deliberately targeted. Nearly two years on since the milestone International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention, Jonathan Cuénoud, Legal Advisor for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and Benjamin Charlier…