Cultural heritage
Newsarchive
War in Croatia: An open letter in protest of the devastation in Yugoslavia
Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks
Unescoarchive
The Yugoslav National Army has caused serious destruction to Sibenic cathedral, churches, castles and historic buildings in Croatia while attempting to divide their territory
The Minister for Education and Culture sends list of destruction to Unesco and invokes the 1954 Hague Convention
War memorialarchive
The splendour of ruins?
To resurrect or not to resurrect Dresden’s Frauenkirche, which has been left in ruins as a slowly decaying war memorial
Ursula Ursula Sdunnus
Unescoarchive
Number of sites protected by Unesco has increased, and campaign to raise money to protect them is launched
The safeguarding of these places of global, cultural importance will increase
War & Conflictarchive
The law of war: The Hague Convention as military necessity or military convenience?
The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind