By Manon Beury
“I cannot attend the Pussy Riot’s performance tonight. Do you want my ticket?”
It is a beautiful gift that Fiana, founder of Creating Rights, offered me this Thursday morning. On January 31st, 2019, we waited for the show to start at 20:30 at Paard in The Hague. I didn’t know what to expect…
By Njomza Miftari
“Enforced disappearances” is a phrase that is not frequently mentioned in the European human rights context, however, this is not the case in regions such as Latin America where enforced disappearances has dreadfully impacted thousands of families in the last decades. “Who killed my brother?”, is a documentary directed by Ana Fraile and…
by Fiana Gantheret
The question of the way different fields come together to enrich international criminal investigations and legal work was already touched upon here on Creating Rights when looking at Eyal Weizmann's and Susan Schuppli's project Forensic Architecture, a research project at the crossroads of international human rights law, architecture and engineering.
See You in The Hague by Stroom Den Haag, "a multifaceted narrative…
By Fiana Gantheret
On the occasion of the bicentennial of the Dutch Constitution, the Cartoon Movement, together with Word Press Photo, the City of The Hague and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched on 29 March 2014 the Peace and Justice cartoon project at the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands.
With reference to Article 90 of the Constitution, which provides that "The Government shall promote the development of the international rule of law", the project aims at triggering a debate on peace and justice through a series of guest lectures in several countries and the sharing of ideas that will follow these lectures. The students will be invited to share their thoughts by sending their tweets, sketches, comments and photos, that professional cartoonists will then transform into cartoons.
Here is a presentation of the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMmTctrhYrQ
