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<div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1629365581000_somorjai.noemi@med.semmelweis-univ.hu_1670E28119430000BFD9000000000000_"><span class="GroupwiseReplyHeader">>>> IFLA Headquarters <ifla@ifla.org> 2021. 08. 19. 0:02 >>><br></span><div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Alongside the international community, IFLA has been watching the events of the past days unfold in Afghanistan closely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Our concern is first and foremost for the people of Afghanistan, particularly those groups that are most vulnerable,</strong> including women and girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We join our voice to the global call for the human rights of all Afghan citizens to be respected and upheld. As the voice of the global library field, we put particular emphasis <strong>on the right to education
and access to information, freedom of opinion and expression, and cultural rights for all.</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<h2><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Cultural Rights and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To ensure the right to participate in cultural life, the diverse cultural heritage of Afghanistan in all its forms, both tangible and intangible, must be safeguarded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">IFLA calls on all authorities across Afghanistan <strong>to safeguard libraries and their collections, including documentary heritage collections held by citizens in private collections, as well as all memory
institutions, museums, archives, galleries, and monuments and sites across the country.</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We put particular emphasis on <strong>the need to mitigate threats associated with illicit trafficking and theft of cultural property, to which documentary heritage is particularly vulnerable.</strong></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We therefore call on all authorities to carry out this safeguarding of cultural heritage, and of those professionals who work to preserve it, without discrimination due to ethnicity, gender, religion,
or political opinion, to ensure it remains accessible for future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In particular, we join our voices with fellow international cultural organisations to call on authorities to continue abiding by their <strong>international obligations to protect heritage as a state-party
to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property</strong> and its protocols, and the <strong>UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.</strong></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Finally, <strong>IFLA honours those who have already risked their lives to protect the country’s documentary heritage and cultural heritage in all forms</strong>. We will continue to liaise with our network in the
region and international partners to monitor the situation and provide any support that is possible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Christine Mackenzie</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br>
IFLA President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gerald Leitner</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br>
IFLA Secretary General<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">19 August 2021<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">See also the </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27389&LangID=E" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">statement</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of
the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Karima Bennoune, on the situation in Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">View online: </span>
<a href="https://www.ifla.org/node/94117"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">https://www.ifla.org/node/94117</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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