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Empowering Artists: The EAVA Residency Program

Empowering Artists: The EAVA Residency Program

Culture is arts and imagination. In times of crisis, artists and cultural thinkers shape new languages of care, relation, and radical imagination. Their work is not only to decorate walls, but to defend lives, freedoms, and dignity.

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Four Years of Defending Through Art: The Story of Uganda’s Human Rights Are Universal Arts Festival

Four Years of Defending Through Art: The Story of Uganda’s Human Rights Are Universal Arts Festival

Four years ago, the idea of a Human Rights festival in Uganda sounded impossible. Who would the artists be? Where would we get the films? And how would we get people to gather and listen to conversations on human rights—a subject often seen as reserved for the elite in workshops and policy briefs? The dream was ambitious. There was no funding, no road map, just one conviction: the festival must happen.

Announcing the Theme for the 2025 Festival: "DEFEND"

Announcing the Theme for the 2025 Festival: "DEFEND"

The Human Rights Are Universal Festival is excited to announce "DEFEND" as the theme for our 2025 edition, focusing on climate change, discrimination, democracy, and freedom of expression.