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Freedom of expression and the arts
To more effectively defend the plight of artists across the world, ARTICLE 19 is campaigning to highlight cases of artists around the world whose right to freedom of expression has been curtailed and abused.

Painters, poets, singers, photographers, dramatists, authors, film-makers, musicians, and other artists are targeted because of their art and creation: they are silenced and censored through imprisonment, harrassment, intimidation, and in the worse cases, killed. The perpetrators are governments and state agents, but also non-state actors – a variety of groups intent on keeping full control on all forms of expression and thus on suppressing dissenting voices or images, in the name of purity, morality, religion or for a variety of other reasons.

ARTICLE 19 is working on a number of projects:
  • The ArtVenture Freedom to Create Prize in November 2008 recognised the ways that artists use their work to defend and promote human rights, including freedom of expression, empathy, equality and understanding;
  • The Artist Alert is a new publication launched in 2008 to document the repression of artists around the world and bring their cases to the attention of the global community.
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