International Legal Approaches to the Protection of Cultural Heritage
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Abstract. The need to analyze international legal mechanisms of the protection of cultural objects is primarily
due to the circumstances in which modern society finds itself: geopolitical transformation processes, migration
and trends towards multiculturalism, as well as the growing attention to the protection of human rights, among
which cultural rights occupy not the last place. Ukraine, which is at the epicenter of changes of the world order,
having chosen democratic European values as the guideline for its further development, must make efforts to
harmoniously ensure its future entry into the European community. The creation of the necessary legal basis will
play a key role in this. On the other hand, to preserve national self-identity, immersion in multicultural
communities requires the development of such policies that will maintain a balance between the borrowed and
the own one. In these processes, international legal instruments, recommendations and decisions of
international organizations can be used as a source of necessary information. The purpose of the study is to
analyze the relationship between the regulatory legal acts of various international intergovernmental
organizations and their effectiveness in protecting cultural rights through the preservation and protection of
cultural heritage, as well as the possibility of liability for relevant violations. The basis of the research
methodology is general scientific and theoretical methods, which made it possible to trace the dynamics of the
development of individual international instruments for the protection of cultural heritage in historical retrospect,
their stagnation by Ukraine in connection with external challenges. The scientific novelty of the study is the
identification of the practical benefits and effects of the application of international norms for the protection of
cultural heritage objects and cultural rights, and the identification of opportunities for legal influence on violators.
The analysis conducted allows us to conclude that it is necessary to find ways to increase international legal
liability for violations of cultural rights associated with the destruction or damage to cultural heritage objects,
including those with a special international status.
Keywords: cultural and natural heritage; international protection; UNESCO; international documents; human
rights.
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