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…
DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3, another Armenian cemetery in Shusha/i was damaged. It appears that bulldozers dumped heaps of debris atop the old Ghazanchetsots cemetery (southeast of the cathedral), endangering the already fragmented tombstones. The location of…
DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3 bulldozers carved a road through an historic burial ground in Shusha/i known as the Yerevan Gate cemetery. Nestled amidst the trees are at least 78 Armenian-inscribed tombstones dating between 1802 and 1913.…
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.…
DAMAGE ALERT: Construction in Shusha/i has damaged the archaeological remains of the 1838 Meghretsots Holy Mother of God church. A Nov. 3 satellite image shows that demolition debris (arrow A) was recently dumped on the foundations of the old church,…
An Armenian church in Azerbaijan was destroyed in 2022, violating an ICJ ruling. New activity raises questions about how the state is responding. CHW sets out the visual evidence of what happened in a new CHW StoryMap.
In the wake of months under siege and the renewal of armed assaults, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh face a tragic choice: remain on ancestral lands where their churches, cemeteries, and monasteries testify to centuries of communal life or flee in…
CHW Co-Founders Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, and Adam T. Smith have been selected as finalists for the 2023 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities for our work monitoring endangered cultural heritage and documenting destruction…
CHW released its fifth Monitoring Report on the status of cultural heritage in and around Nagorno-Karabakh today, June 22, 2023. It documents 1 destroyed bridge, 2 damaged cemeteries, & 5 newly threatened sites. In this cycle, we identified two concerning…
CHW has documented the destruction of the 1835 Halevor Bridge, which spanned the Ishkhanaget/Quruçay River, 2km southwest of Böyük Tağlar/Mets Tagher. We have been concerned about this bridge since last summer. It was clearly visible in an Oct. 2021 satellite…
