Freemuse new report The State of Artistic Freedom 2020 is an in-depth analysis of 711 acts of violations of artistic freedom in 2019 in 93 countries.

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.

Counter-terrorism legislation was a troubling and growing method of violating freedom of artistic expression seen in 2018.

  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 …

UNESCO Global Report 2018 analyses the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

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/

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.

Watch Freemuse board member Daniel Brown speak about Freemuse and the issues facing artists and freedom of artistic expression. (interview in French)

Freemuse registered 1,028 attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2016 across 78 countries, continuing a worrying trend of artistic freedom increasingly coming under threat. The number of cases registered in 2016 more than doubled the amount in 2015, increasing by 119%, rising from 469 attacks. Of those more than one thousand cases, Freemuse documented 188 total serious violations of artistic freedom and 840 acts of censorship.

UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural right report focuses on the grave impact fundamentalism & extremism have on the cultural rights of women.