To protect the cultural property of Iraq is now in danger of being damaged or destroyed by the action by the military conflict in Iraq in recent years, in June 2015, the International Council of Museum - ICOM , has announced emergency Red List of Iraqi cultural artifacts risk danger. This is the list were ICOM supplements and updates many of the Iraqi cultural artifacts than a similar list published for the first time in 2003.
The military conflict affecting cultural heritage - as typical in Iraq and Syria in recent times, the phenomenon of the rebels were deliberately destroying the cultural heritage in a combat zone, it also is the urgent warning to the international community museums in contributing to protecting the cultural heritage of the world. Along with Emergency Red List of cultural artifacts of Syria, published in 2013, Emergency Red List of Iraqi cultural artifacts, published this time and will be instrumental to the ICOM members to contribute prevent illicit trafficking of cultural property in the global scope.
Besides building and announced emergency Red List, ICOM also continue to promote the development of tools to support monitoring the illegal movement of cultural property is especially important in the world, as " observe international network of illegal movement of cultural assets "came into use in 2013.
[Link to "international observation network for illegal transportation of cultural assets": http://obs-traffic.museum/
Link to "Emergency Red List of Iraqi cultural artifacts" in 2015:
http://icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Press_Releases/Red_List_Iraq_EN_2015.pdf ]