Item Archive: human rights
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#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 5. The Lazours
The Lazours (Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour) are brothers and music theatre writers of Lebanese descent. We Live in Cairo, their musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, was directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar for its premiere season at the … Continue reading
Posted in AR-ENSH, Conferences and Symposia
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#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 9. Ruangrupa (Reza ‘Asung’ Afisina & Farid Rakun)
ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based collective established in 2000. It is a non-profit organization that strives to support the idea of art within urban and cultural context by involving artists and other disciplines such as social sciences, politics, technology, media, etc, to … Continue reading
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#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 13. Vivienne Chow
Vivienne Chow is an award-winning journalist from Hong Kong, specialising in arts, culture and cultural politics. She is currently the London Correspondent for Artnet News and a contributor to Variety. Her work has appeared in various media outlets and specialist publications including … Continue reading
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#AlliancesforArtatRisk Participant 12. Timea Junghaus
Timea Junghaus is an art historian, a leader of the Roma cultural and political movement, and a contemporary art curator. She is the executive director of the Berlin-based European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – the transnational institute for … Continue reading
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PRESS: Urla dalle prigioni La voce dei torturati by Corriere della Sera
SOURCE: Corriere della Sera – La Lettura Di FEDERICA LAVARINI 9.1.2022 PRESS TEXT: Urla dalle prigioni La voce dei torturati Le fosse comuni a pochi chilometri dal centro della capitale bielorussa Minsk, nella foresta di Kurapaty, sono state disseppellite nel 1988 … Continue reading
Posted in Press Reports
Tagged #artistsatrisk, activism, alliancesforartatrisk, AR, belarus, corriere della sera, Federica Lavarini, human rights, Lukashenko
Artists at Risk (AR) supports IRDORATH, Belarusian band arrested for performances at pro-democracy protests
The fantasy-folk band IRDORATH were among the 16 people brutally detained by unmarked soldiers with machine guns at a cottage near Minsk on August 2nd during a birthday party for the band’s frontwoman, Nadezha Kalach. The Belarusian Council for Culture … Continue reading
Posted in Map, NEWS
Tagged #freebelarus, #freeirdorath, #standwthbelarus, #ЖывеБеларусь, activism, belarus, freedom of expression, human rights, irdorath, music
AR-Resident Collen Kajokoto records poignant video on freedom of artistic expression
Zimbabwean protest poet and recent Artists at Risk (AR)-Resident Collen Kajokoto has recorded a poignant video speaking to the importance of artistic freedom and defending free speech, which AR is sharing in full for the first time today. Excerpts of … Continue reading
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Tagged artistic expression, artistic freedom, collen kajokoto, free speech, freedom of expression, human rights, mai khoi, Norway, zimbabwe
PRESS: Kuolemanvakavasti hauska by Suomen Kuvalehti
SOURCE: Suomen Kuvalehti Kristiina Sarasti 23.04.2021 PRESS TEXT: Kuolemanvakavasti hauska Suomeen asettunut poliittinen pilapiirtäjä Kianoush Ramezani on omistanut elämänsä sananvapauden vaalimiselle. Pilapiirtäjä Kianoush Ramezanin suosikkirutiini on kuvien luonnostelu kahviloissa. © MARJO TYNKKYNEN KUN Kianoush Ramezani viisivuotiaana istui perheensä auton … Continue reading
Joint NGO Statement: States break silence to condemn Egypt’s abuses at UN rights body
AR joins international NGOs and Finnish-led coalition of states in condemning systematic human rights violations in Egypt March 12, 2021 Earlier today, the Finnish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva delivered a joint statement on behalf of 31 countries urging … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, NEWS
Tagged #FreeMustafaGamal, #HRC46, #prisonersofbalaha, #الحرية_للمعتقلين, advocacy, AR, Artists at Risk (AR), arts, Campaigns, culture, democracy, European Union, Free Galal, free speech, freedom, freedom from torture, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freegalal, human rights, perpetuum mobile, Policy, statement
PRESS: REPRESSIÓ Marita Muukkonen i Ivor Stodolsky, codirectores d’Artistes en Risc “Els creadors han de poder presentar obres controvertides sense que els tribunals els amenacin”, in Directa
Source: Directa.cat ENGLISH interview questions Please also use your favourite auto-translate tool to also read original text as published in Catalan below, which includes the story of Lisa Fittko’s work in the Resistance Movement against Nazism in the Second World … Continue reading
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Tagged #artistsatrisk, activism, AR, Catalan rap, Catalonia, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Gag law, human rights, Pablo Hasél, spain