Cultural Restitution
November 17, 2022
STATE OF PALESTINE
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STATE OF PALESTINE
Updated November 2022
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Palestine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
November 2022
Palestine calls for return of the Shellal Mosaic, removed by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in 1917, which Israel claims should be returned to them
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Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Village leaders at San Benito Poité in southern Belize, formerly British Honduras, are claiming that an important collection of artefacts removed from the ancient city of Pusilha is not the lawful property of the British Museum
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different