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Since China signed agreements to prevent theft, excavation and illegal entry and exit of cultural relics with 24 countries after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, more than 1,800 relics lost overseas have returned to the motherland, Chinese officials said at a press conference held at Chinas top court on Tuesday.

In Sudan, the plunder of ancient sites and millenia-long cultural history is being looted and smuggled abroad, due to weak legal deterrents, lax regulations, ongoing civil unrest and widespread instability.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

This article examines the key legal and practical issues surrounding art transactions in Czech Republic, including with regard to private sales and auctions, loans, cross-border transactions and finance.

This article examines the key legal and practical issues surrounding art transactions in Belgium, including with regard to private sales and auctions, loans, cross-border transactions and finance.

UK - Are Alternative Dispute Resolution ('ADR') Mechanisms The Way To Resolve Cultural Property Disputes? Legal News and Analysis - United Kingdom - Dispute Resolution -

Among the war crimes committed by Russian occupiers in Ukraine, crimes against cultural heritage play a special part. Destruction of heritage sites, artillery strikes on educational and cultural facilities, looting of museums and archives…  — Ukrinform.

The UNESCO has said the illicit trafficking in cultural property harms Africa's identity.Hubert Gijzen, UNESCO Regional Director for Eastern Africa, said on Wednesday in a speech read on his behalf by Misako Ito, the Regional Adviser for ...

UN says illicit trafficking in cultural property harms Africas identity-

UN says illicit trafficking in cultural property harms Africas identity-