As part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Hague Convention, Blue Shield Poland co-organized the conference “War and the protection
The Polish Blue Shield Committee is organising and participating in various initiatives concerning the protection of cultural property in both peace and war.
The Polish Committee of the Blue Shield has been supporting efforts to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage. In response to ICOMOS Poland’s proposal to
Professor Peter Stone, Chair of Blue Shield United Kingdom and Vice President of Blue Shield International, spoke in a panel on ‘Saving cultural
Photo: Colonnade and Qala’ at Ibn Maan, Palmyra. Feldstein 2006, via Wikimedia Commons. In 2015, the extremist group called the Islamic State (also
The Yemeni Civil War began in 2015 between two factions, each claiming to constitute the Yemeni government, along with their supporters and allies.
As the widespread fighting in Iraq increased, an extremist group calling themselves the Islamic State (ISIS) rose in power, taking over a large
Following the 2003 invasion, Iraq slowly descended into civil war. As the fighting increased, Blue Shield International issued the following statement. Blue Shield
The objective of the mission was to evaluate the current situation of Cultural Heritage (including monuments, archaeological and historical sites and archives) in
The 2003 Invasion of Iraq, was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a
