Katie Paul UNCTED Threat and Trends: The Traffic and Illicit Trade of Cultural Property for Terrorist Purposes

CTED hold a virtual roundtable on “Threat and Trends: The Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property for Terrorist Purposes”

While condemning the destruction of cultural heritage in contexts of armed conflicts, including and notably by terrorist groups, the United Nations Security Council has highlighted on different occasions the role that the illicit trade and trafficking in cultural property can have in generating revenue to support recruitment efforts and strengthen the operational capacity of terrorist groups to organize and carry out attacks.

[Video] How Tech Companies and Antiquities Traffickers Profit by Katie Paul

How Tech Companies and Antiquities Traffickers Profit from the Unregulated Digital Black Market by Katie Paul (ATHAR) Session 5. North America Session and Closing, Organised by Shawn Graham at Carleton University, Canada, Cultural Heritage Crime Conference 2022, August 1-3 2022

[Video] ASOR Early Career Scholars Research in Action: “Social Media’s Antiquities Black Market” with Katie Paul

Katie Paul (Co-director and founder, ATHAR project) will give the second seminar in the Term II UCL Institute of Archaeology thematic series on Ethical Challenges in Researching (Il)licit Antiquities on 17 January.

How Trafficking Networks and Tech Companies Profit from the Online Black Market in Antiquities

Katie Paul (Co-director and founder, ATHAR project) will give the second seminar in the Term II UCL Institute of Archaeology thematic series on Ethical Challenges in Researching (Il)licit Antiquities on 17 January.

The Social Dilemma: How Social Media Platforms Accelerate Antiquities Trafficking and Control Online Communities

Investigative and digital ethnographic research into online trafficking communities has generated new insights into how traffickers become online influencers and, in doing so, helps to control the material that is offered in their digital black markets.

The fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property: for a strengthened global dialogue

Organised by UNESCO, in partnership with the European Union and in the framework of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Convention, this international conference brings together all the actors in the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property to dialogue on a united and collaborative approach to strengthen the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property at the global level and on concrete activities to be implemented.

UNIDROIT Combatting Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property during COVID-19 – illicit excavations and online trade

Cranfield Forensic Institute Cultural Heritage Crime Conference

Katie A. Paul, Co-Director of the ATHAR Project discusses the the current state of Facebook antiquities black market.

Opinion: Biden had it right the first time. Facebook is killing People

From facilitating genocide to COVID-19 disinformation, tech titan is causing many people to lose their lives.

Facebook Fueling the Illicit Antiquities Trade Across the Middle East and North Africa

ATHAR Project and the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO) contributed posters about the ongoing initiatives to fight looting and trafficking of cultural goods.

[Video] Culture in Ruins: The illicit trade in cultural property in North and West Africa 20 November 2020

The illicit trade in cultural property – cultural goods and looted archaeological objects, highly valued on international markets – is one of the greatest threats to heritage in North and West Africa.