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31/5/2023

Blue Shield General Assembly 2023

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On 31st May 2023 the Blue Shield held its General Assembly, and elected a new Board:
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From the National Committees,
  • Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly was elected from the the Lebanese Committee of the Blue Shield
  • Hamady Gaye, from the Senegalese Blue Shield Committee, was re-elected for a second term
  • Anna Puhr, from the Austrian Committee of the Blue Shield was elected, and
  • Klaus Weschenfelder, from the German Blue Shield Committee, was re-elected for a second term.

The founding four organisation have nominated the following representatives:
  • ICA will be represented by Emilie Gagnet Leumas, Chair of the ICA Expert Group on Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
  • ICOM will be represented by Medea Ekner, ICOM’s Director-General (Interim)
  • ICOMOS will be represented by Michał Wosiński, an expert member of ICOMOS ICLAFI – International Scientific Committee on Legal Administrative and Financial Issues, and heritage expert.
  • IFLA will be represented by Sharon Memis, Secretary General and CEO of IFLA.

Ömer Dabanli and Gerrit deBruin were re-elected to the auditing committee.

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18/5/2023

EUAM conference on "Crimes against Cultural Heritage – in Wartime and Non-Wartime"

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The Board of Blue Shield Austria particpated at the hybride, high-profile conference “Cultural Heritage Crime: In Wartime and Beyond” organized by the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) Ukraine on 18-19 May in Lviv. The event brought together renowned international experts on cultural property protection and representatives from the Ukrainian and European Union state authorities, law enforcement and rule of law agencies as well as museums and cultural institutions. Jointly they discussed the best models of cooperation in recovering the losses inflicted by the Russian aggression on the cultural heritage objects of Ukraine and investigating respective crimes.
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In this context, participants considered the legal framework, operational approaches and international and local response to cultural heritage crime, highlighting the importance of cooperation, coordinated efforts and information exchange at national/international levels.
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​Blue Shield expert Dr. Michael Delacruz  provided a speech on the challenges to implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention in Ukraine. The source for the presentation was an assessment report of the Missions of the Blue Shield  to Ukraine from November 2022 to January 2023. The aim of the Assessment report was to collect the facts of possible violations of international law (1954 Hague Convention and specific of the deliberate destruction, damage, or theft of cultural heritage. 
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