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Empowering Artists: The EAVA Residency Program
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Empowering Artists: The EAVA Residency Program

Aug 27, 2025 2 min read min read

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 Festival News

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

Aug 26, 2025 3 min read min

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.

Why Narrative Change is the New Frontier for Human Rights Community Stories

Why Narrative Change is the New Frontier for Human Rights

May 08, 2025 3 min read min

"We are in a world where narrative change is the key to human rights freedom, changing the narrative." The problem, however, is that "anti-rights movements have a lot of space, a lot of platforms to spread their message." This unhindered propagation of harmful narratives isn't just about state-sanctioned oppression; as powerfully stated, "the harm doesn't only come from the states. It also comes from the communities."

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