Art Rights Truth announces two new commissioning calls

After the conclusion of the Conversations with Testimony and Conversations with Reports commissioning calls, the Art Rights Truth project has commissioned its final two projects.

"We Are (for) Civil Society", in collaboration with CIVICUS, aims to counter the global assault on civil society by showcasing its value through art. In this call, the project invited proposals from artists and activists working together seeking to communicate the value and contributions of civil society through art. Projects began in November 2024, and will conclude in December 2025.

Through the “Conversations with Reports (Amnesty International)” call, ART invited artists and activists to respond to a human rights report by Amnesty International titled Under Protected and Over Restricted: The State of the Right to Protest in 21 European Countries (July 2024). The report ‘reveals a continent-wide pattern of repressive laws, use of unnecessary or excessive force, arbitrary arrests and prosecutions, unwarranted or discriminatory restrictions as well as the increasing use of invasive surveillance technology, resulting in a systematic roll back of the right to protest’. The report is part of Amnesty International’s global campaign, ‘Protect the Protest’. Projects will end in September 2025.

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