The Privatising Censorship, Digitising Violence: Shrinking Space of Women’s Rights to Create in the Digital Age report outlines how women artists interact with the online space and draws attention to the worrying nature and frequency of threats they are directed.
Read More »The State of Artistic Freedom 2019
Counter-terrorism legislation was a troubling and growing method of violating freedom of artistic expression seen in 2018.
Read More »Creativity Wronged: How women’s right to artistic freedom is denied and marginalised
Alankrita Shrivastava’s film Lipstick Under My Burkha was initially denied release in India for being “lady oriented”, Icelandic artist Borghildur Indriðadóttir had her Facebook friends and photos deleted after she shared a promo of her photo exhibition Demoncrazy featuring topless women, and Afghan playwright and actor Monirah Hashemi received …
Read More »UNESCO Global Report 2018: Reshaping Cultural Policies
UNESCO Global Report 2018 analyses the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
Read More »Daniel Brown on Freemuse’s work at Czech Music Crossroads Conference
Freemuse board member Daniel Brown speaks to Radio Proglas about Freemuse’s work while at the Czech Music Crossroads conference in February 2018: https://hudba.proglas.cz/noklasik/aktuality-noklasik/daniel-brown-cenzura-se-obraci-proti-cenzorum/
Read More »The State of Artistic Freedom 2018
Freemuse warns of the emergence of a new global culture of silencing others, where artistic expression is being shut down in every corner of the globe, including in the traditionally democratic West.
Read More »Daniel Brown on Freemuse’s work
Watch Freemuse board member Daniel Brown speak about Freemuse and the issues facing artists and freedom of artistic expression. (interview in French)
Read More »UN report: Impact of fundamentalism on the cultural rights of women
UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural right report focuses on the grave impact fundamentalism & extremism have on the cultural rights of women.
Read More »INSIGHT publication: Targeting the Arts 2016
The 2016 compilation provides insight on threats to artistic freedom in Poland, Turkey, Greece, India and Vietnam.
Read More »UN report: Impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the enjoyment of cultural rights
In her second report to the Human Rights Council, Karima Bennoune – the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights – considers how the rise of fundamentalism and extremism, in diverse forms, represent major threats to human rights worldwide.
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