Category Heritage Monitoring

CHW Testifies on Capitol Hill

[Reposted here from a CIAMS News Article by Ruth Portes] On September 19, 2024, Prof. Adam T. Smith (Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology at Cornell University and Co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch) presented testimony to the Tom…

CHW Releases Monitoring Report #7

CHW today released Monitoring Report #7 on cultural heritage at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our latest monitoring cycle has revealed the greatest number of impacted Armenian cultural sites since we began monitoring in 2021: 6 newly destroyed sites and 7 facing…

CHW Releases Monitoring Report #6

On December 4, 2024, CHW released its sixth Monitoring Report, its first since the expulsion of over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023. The report details impacts to cultural heritage in the region, documenting the devastating toll that new…

Support CHW

Satellite monitoring is costly. Since 2021 CHW has kept watch over 270+ sites. With the ethnic cleansing of Karabakh this will ↑ to ≈500. If you rely on CHW for reliable info re: the status of Armenian cultural heritage pls.…