Item Archive: human rights
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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
#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
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
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
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
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
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
#RISKANDREBELLION PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PROGRAMME! Click here to find information about each participant. Watch the full 7-hour #RiskandRebellion Symposium and Concert on YouTube! The #RiskandRebellion programme is out. Check it for details of each CHAPTER, participant and/or musical, activist or … Continue reading
Open Letter: European Democracy Action Plan

September 14, 2020 This open letter is being submitted in response to the public consultation launched by the European Commission on the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP). We, the undersigned, welcome the initiative to develop a European Democracy Action Plan … Continue reading