Alankrita Shrivastava’s film Lipstick Under My Burkha was initially denied release in India for being “lady oriented”, Icelandic artist Borghildur Indriðadóttir had her Facebook friends and photos deleted after she shared a promo of her photo exhibition Demoncrazy featuring topless women, and Afghan playwright and actor Monirah Hashemi received death threats for performing in Afghanistan and shut herself inside her house for three months before relocating to Sweden to continue her career in the arts.
Creativity Wronged: How Women's Right to Artistic Freedom is Denied and Marginalised
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WHO meeting on music and motherhood: health-care innovation through the arts
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‘On the Move’ Global Cultural Gathering in Caernarfon
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UN expert urges Chile to prioritise cultural rights
A new report explores artistic freedom in Tanzania
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Gender
Aboriginal women’s arts program exhibits the impact of cultural practice on health and wellbeing
Ernest Urtasun preside la reunión plenaria del Observatorio de Igualdad en la Cultura
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Statistics, evaluation and research
The international conference Artists and Culture after COVID has concluded research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural sector, identifying ongoing challenges and announcing changes to operations
Artists spend about 60 per cent of their total working time making art – other work is mainly done because the income from making art is not enough to live on
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