Chair of UK Blue Shield, Fionnuala Rogers, has worked with the major NGO Think Tank, The Antiquities Coalition, to release of a Policy Brief that analyses the UK’s decision to Repeal the EU Import Regulation in Great Britain and prevent…
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UK National Committee of the Blue Shield (UKBS) expresses concern that the UK government is unprepared to handle the challenges of maintaining distinct systems for the import of cultural goods into different parts of the UK and has significantly underestimated…
UK Blue Shield Responded to the UK Government Call for Evidence regarding its proposal to create Freeports in the UK. Read the Submission here: Executive Summary There are demonstrable links between Freeports and illicit trafficking of cultural property (CP) with…
Blue Shield United Kingdom [1] notes with grave concern the recent statements by the President of the United States of America that he is contemplating targeting cultural sites in Iran if Iran reacts to the killing of General Qasem Soleimani,…
Widely criticized as ineffective, the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (HC54) and its two Protocols remain the key legal provision for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict today.…