On the eve of the 5th anniversary of the #genocide against the #Yazidi by the Islamic State, we release a report on the destruction of #culturalheritage that took place throughout with @YazdaOrg and @EAMENA123 (1/
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Please consider donating to raise funds to provide our colleague and Iraqi archaeologist @AkoLashkri with a new functional bionic prosthesis.
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#Iraq#Archaeology#fundraiser
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ONLINE LECTURE: Capacity Building and Community Heritage in Assur, #Iraq
Yalda Razmahang investigates the role ideology plays in #CulturalHeritage destruction and how cultural monuments can unite people of different ethnicities.
📅3 Nov
⏰4pm🇬🇧7pm🇹🇷
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Heritage Recovery in Mosul: Building Capacity for Professional Development, Training, Iraq.
For young architects and civil engineers from Mosul.
Apply by 15 November 2022; Full time training from December 2022 to August 2023.
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Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis https://t.co/h7KyH607nE 3 @TimLeBerre@ANSCH_1@RASHID_Internat@WorldMonuments WATCH: Mam Rashan Shrine https://t.co/mJsRXFCPp0 @UnescoTCHER @CPP_Officer
Read our ‘Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis’ report with @YazdaOrg and @EAMENA. Let’s unite through culture to support fair representation & the sustainable return of 250,000 displaced families to Sinjar (2/2)
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How should we deal with ISIS/Daesh crimes in Iraq? Our Chief Legal Officer Seán Fobbe recently briefed the #UNITAD team and the NGO community on the results of our work on the Yazidi genocide - a 🧵
Slides: https://t.co/SgnyAYnj9e
➡️ Systematic and widespread destruction of cultural heritage can be prosecuted as a crime against humanity: persecution
➡️ Heritage destruction should be assessed as part of the special intent to commit genocide (see case law of the ICTY and ICJ)
➡️ Military destruction of almost two dozen Yazidi heritage sites is confirmed by witness reports, satellite imagery analysis and on-the-ground photography
➡️ Attacks on culture need to be considered in the wider context of prosecuting ISIS crimes in Iraq
Yet another example of overlap between different commodities in transnational criminal networks.
Police in Spain were searching a home for drugs and found more than a thousand artifacts from the 12th and 18th centuries, as well as Roman era. https://t.co/M0dU8Qq14v
FAITH RESTORED
A Pair of 12th/13th Century Wooden Struts, Stolen in the 1980s From Narayana Temple, Hyumata, Located by Lost Arts of Nepal on 17th November 2021 in the Pritzker Collection, USA is Back.
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A Yezidi woman with her child, Shingal Mountains, Iraq, 1953. Photographed by Eugen Wirth.
Published on the Yezidi Photo Archive with the kind permission of the Wirth family and the Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft.
Yezidi women in Sinjar, Iraq, 1932. Photographed by Cecil J. Edmonds.
Published on the Yezidi Photo Archive with the kind permission of the Edmonds family and the Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford.