The international conventions and the protection of cultural heritage in Spain 40 years after the adoption of the Spanish Historic Heritage Law: influences and pending tasks
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The 40th anniversary of the Spanish Historic Heritage Law, of 1985, is a good moment to, on the one hand, analyse the significant influence of the wide normative work carried on by UNESCO through the adoption and impulse of the International Conventions for the protection of the cultural heritage that has had in the recognition –definition and identification of–, safeguard and protection of the Spanish Historic Heritage and, what is more, in the Spanish citizens’ view of it; but, on the other hand, it is also a good moment to underline the need for the Law’s reform to adapt it to the contents of the several new International Conventions adopted by Spain after the Law entered into force. For these proposes, it will be analysed, firstly, the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts, considering
The Hague Convention of 1954 and its two Protocols, and, secondly, by focusing on the general protection of cultural heritage, following the impact in Spain’s law of the different UNESCO Conventions on the matter.
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