2021 – Creating Rights

Memory of a silenced community: Fighting Anti-Roma Attitudes through Art

9 December 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

by Alicia Cotillas December 9 is World Genocide Prevention Day, marking the anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention, which was adopted on this day in 1948 after the horrors of the Holocaust. Today, we remember the victims of genocide and the commitment to prevent future atrocities. Today we also to bring attention to what the…

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REMEMBRANCE AND HOPE FOR SYRIA

30 October 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

by Juliette Remond-Tiedrez I mainly wanted to go the Institut du monde arabe (IMA - Arab world institute) last Monday to see Amal. Amal, which means hope in Arabic and is a female name, is the 3.5 meter puppet representing the millions of Syrian children having had to flee Syria and migrate to Europe.…

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Movies That Matter 2021 – Online

14 April 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

By Fiana Gantheret, Director On Friday 16 April will start the 2021 edition of the Movies That Matter festival. This Hague-based international movies festival offers the audience around 70 films in six competitions programmes. The mission of the festival is to "open eyes for human rights", through "screening of human rights related films and the…

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Music as a Healing Tool for the Yazidi Genocide Victims

25 January 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez In their Acting Together on the World Stage documentary, Theatre Without Borders and Brandeis University argued that art could be used as a way to resist oppression, to reconcile, to raise awareness about human rights violations but also as a way to heal and to reconstruct oneself. Since I’ve watched the documentary,…