When protectors become perpetrators: State destruction of cultural heritage
Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (Kyiv region) after Russian shelling. Picture: CC BY 4.0 / Wikipedia / Taken 25 February 2022 By Michaela Millender
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Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (Kyiv region) after Russian shelling. Picture: CC BY 4.0 / Wikipedia / Taken 25 February 2022 By Michaela Millender
A protester wears a T-shirt in support of the Niger, Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso junta leaders gesture during a demonstration on independence day in
Nicaragua and Namibia stand against Germany in solidarity with Palestine. The unity between Palestine and Namibia is now cemented through mutual suffering – German Genocide,
Portuguese climate activists lower a banner reading, ‘The government and companies declared war on society and the planet’. On the eve of the anniversary of
President Mahamat Idriss ‘Kaka’ Déby (pictured) took over the presidency in 2021 following the death of his father, Idris Déby Itno, who was killed on
Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, May 16, 2023. Public health concerns in war-torn Sudan continue to escalate with the destruction of health infrastructure, widespread displacement
South Africa – Durban – 22 March 2024 – Making handy work of the “Water for Peace” theme on World Water Day yesterday at Durban
A wide view of the town hall meeting with civil society on the occasion of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Western leaders have failed to condemn the Israeli aggression against the Iranian embassy
A person watches from a donkey-drawn cart as people search the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Asra residential compound, northwest of Nuseirat in the
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno ahead of a meeting on Sahel with leaders from the region at the
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel on April 13, 2024, served as a deterrence and were within the framework of a
Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum (Kyiv region) after Russian shelling. Picture: CC BY 4.0 / Wikipedia / Taken 25 February 2022 By Michaela Millender
A protester wears a T-shirt in support of the Niger, Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso junta leaders gesture during a demonstration on independence day in
Nicaragua and Namibia stand against Germany in solidarity with Palestine. The unity between Palestine and Namibia is now cemented through mutual suffering – German Genocide,
Portuguese climate activists lower a banner reading, ‘The government and companies declared war on society and the planet’. On the eve of the anniversary of
President Mahamat Idriss ‘Kaka’ Déby (pictured) took over the presidency in 2021 following the death of his father, Idris Déby Itno, who was killed on
Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, May 16, 2023. Public health concerns in war-torn Sudan continue to escalate with the destruction of health infrastructure, widespread displacement
South Africa – Durban – 22 March 2024 – Making handy work of the “Water for Peace” theme on World Water Day yesterday at Durban
A wide view of the town hall meeting with civil society on the occasion of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Western leaders have failed to condemn the Israeli aggression against the Iranian embassy
A person watches from a donkey-drawn cart as people search the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Asra residential compound, northwest of Nuseirat in the
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno ahead of a meeting on Sahel with leaders from the region at the
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel on April 13, 2024, served as a deterrence and were within the framework of a
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