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)

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

The 2016 compilation provides insight on threats to artistic freedom in Poland, Turkey, Greece, India and Vietnam.

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.

ART UNDER THREAT IN 2016: WHAT DROVE VIOLATIONS The following section of the Art under Threat in 2016 report explores the issues and tendencies that drove governments and other groups to limit artistic expression. TABLE OF CONTENTS * Click on the following titles to be taken to that part of …

PRINCIPLES OF DOCUMENTATION Freemuse annual statistics document violations of artistic freedom in the past year, from 1 January to 31 December. We focus on music, visual arts, cinema/films (fictional), theatre (including performance art), literature (fiction) and dance. The statistics cover artists who are attacked, persecuted, killed, abducted, prosecuted, imprisoned (including …