UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova speaks to the Antiquities Coalition about seeking solutions for cultural racketeering and the importance of outreach to the public, particularly to young people.
At the Culture Under Threat forum held at the Asia Society headquarters in New York and hosted by the Asia Society, the Antiquities Coalition, the Middle East Institute and UNESCO, Foreign Ministers and senior government officials from around the world joined leaders of arts institutions, archaeological associations, and experts in terrorism to stop the looting and trafficking of antiquities, and halt a major source of funding for terrorism.
