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Malaysian cartoonist Zunar awarded the International Press Freedom Award

Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa found murdered along with three women in Mexico City

Artist Tania Brugera arrested and injured by police in Havana

fD joins international community in condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo

ARTSFEX statement on cancellation of Exhibit B at the Barbican Centre

"Writing Exile" event - Tuesday, September 16 - 7PM

Statement by Palestinian performing arts organizations

Analysing the Art of Resistance - World Policy Institute

Letter to Moroccan Minister of Justice re: musician Mouad Belghouate

To send letters of support for Moroccan musician Mouad (El Haqed)

Press Release: Central America Forum on Art, Culture & Human Rights

Show on African homosexuality shut down after fundamentalist attack

Ai Weiwei on Tiananmen Square

Learning from Experience

How I got back the energy and confidence to keep doing...

U Win Tin, Writer Jailed by Myanmar Junta, Dies

Artist-activists in Pakistan : drone deaths are 'NotABugSplat'

New Generation Palestinian Artists at Whitebox Arts Center, NY, Opens 3 April

Salvadorian performance artist faces prison for eating his ballot card : petition launched in his defence

Arab Documentary Photography Programme launched: deadline 15 April 2014

Play on violence to women in India will finally be performed in India

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s books removed from Riyadh International Book Fair

Kumbia Queers @ Queens Museum - March 6, 6-8PM

Shahid Nadeem's THE ACQUITTAL reading - Friday, February 22

Theatrum Mundi launches “Designing for Free Speech” challenge

'The campaign "free Pussy Riot" is over'

'Public Secrets' - Performance & Screening - Saturday, January 11 6-9PM

Art and Activism on the World Stage @ Adelphi University

Mexico City Consultation on Free Expression and Cultural Rights - November 13 & 14

Constitutional Court Admonishes Prosecutors Over Abuse Of Insult Laws As Visual Artist Maseko Wins In Court

Projects We Like: SITUATIONAL JUNTA @ Bowery Poetry Club - October 21, 2013

Presentation: The Right to Freedom of Artistic Expression & Creation

Women’s survival strategies in Chechnya: from self-care to caring for each other

A 'new poetry' emerges from Syria's civil war

Indian author shot dead in Afghanistan

Call for Entries: CENSURADOS Film Festival - Lima, Peru

Ukrainian Museum Director Destroys Critical Painting Ahead Of President's Visit

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The Gezi Park Experience

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Zunar vs. the police and Malaysian government

Forced to Flee: Exiled Voices and Visions for Justice - 11 June 2013

Attention! Turkish democracy needs you!

2013 ART for HEALTH Benefit - May 24, 6:30-9:30PM @ Project Reach NYC

Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation announces Global Arts Fund

fD selected as 2013 Grant Recipient by A Blade of Grass

'Winter of Discontent' screening @ 2013 Alwan Film Festival

SAVE THE DATE! APRIL 25 - fD Exhibition Fundraiser - FRAGILE STATES

ARTRAKER AWARD 2013: Call for Submissions

PERFORMANCE AND JUSTICE: Representing Dangerous Truths Symposium at John Jay College

Belarus Free Theatre, Taking up the death penalty in ‘Trash Cuisine’

A political refugee returns to his small village in West Africa to build a community radio station that educates and inspires

Formulario de Registro

Zunar in protest of draconian Malaysian printing act

Eight charged with Victor Jara's 1973 murder in Chile

Dispatch: Mazen Maarouf on 'All That Is Banned Is Desired'

Dispatch: Mazen Maarouf on 'All that is banned is desired"

Intake Form (Theatre Without Borders)

Bolivian journalist Fernando Vidal set alight on air

Celebrated Somali poet killed by gunmen

MUSIC, TOLERANCE & DEFIANCE - October 19, 6:30 PM

Nepali artist Manish Harijan faces death threats

Host an Occupier Now !

Uganda jails British producer David Cecil over play about homosexuality

Urgent Call to Action: Free Zakaria Zubeidi !

As fighting rages, four political satirists find themselves swept up in the debates that divide Syria's revolutionaries.

Call for the release of filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia by the Syrian authorities

Malaysian High Court rules against political cartoonist Zunar

Recap: COL:LAB 2012 on Wasan Island

Statement by Malaysian Political Cartoonist, Zunar: "MALAYSIA BANS CARTOONS DURING THE ELECTION, BUT I WILL DEFY THE RULING!"

Artistic Director of the Jenin Freedom Theatre taken by Israeli Army

Burmese artists detained in Mandalay

Cultures of Resistance Network grant to freeDimensional and Freemuse

1ST BREAK OUT : Exhibition by Kyaw Thu - 25-27 May - New York City

freeDimensional @ the ICORN General Assembly - Stockholm, Sweden. 9-11 May 2012

CROSSFIRE - Photographs by Shahidul Alam @ QMA - Sunday, April 15

Art For Health @ Project Reach NYC - 31 March 2012

Chaw Ei Thein featured in NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project Newsletter

Press alert: Music Freedom Day - Saturday 3 March

Malaysia deports Saudi journalist accused of insulting prophet in a tweet

Urgent Petition: Justice for Victor Leiva !

Fearing assassination, Salman Rushdie cancels appearance at Jaipur literary festival

Malaysia: Political satirist takes government to court over ‘Cartoon-O-Phobia’

Jenin Freedom Theatre Director Zakaria Zubeidi back on Israel's wanted list

Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75

fD @ Artsfex - Copenhagen Summit on Artistic Freedom of Expression, 9-11 December

Stop the persecution of Bahraini artists and intellectuals!

fD participates in the Triangle Network Conference - November 26 & 27

COL-LAB 2012 RFP

VI. Festival Against Censorship honors fD stakeholder ZUNAR with the 2011 "Courage to Fight Censorship" award

fD participates in VI. Festival Against Censorship - November 7-11

'Cultures of Resistance' - Artists on Art and Activism

Iranian actress, Marzieh Vafamehr, sentenced to 90 lashes and one year in jail

fD participates in Creative Time's 'Living as Form' exhibition - Friday, September 30 @ Essex Street Market

Detroit: A tribute to multi-faceted artist, David Blair

Hadi al-Medhi, Iraqi journalist and theater director, killed on September 8

Israeli Special Forces Raid on Jenin Freedom Theater

Malaysia: Cartoon Rights Network statement against banning of Zunar's political cartoons

A global mechanism to support artists-in-distress

Argentinian musician, Facundo Cabral, assassinated in Guatemala

Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Arts Forum at Khami Prison

Artists speak out on conditions in Belarus & Iran

Freedom to Create Prize 2011 - Only One Month Left to Enter!

Ai Weiwei released; colleagues still detained

Art Residencies & Conflict Areas (June 24/25)

Border Statements & the Regional Triage Team Model

A training for supporting culture workers in distress

Arts educator & eco-activist assassinated in Brazil

{MANAGUA, NICARAGUA} EspIRA / La Espora art space holds community forum

fD Staff goes to School {for Creative Activism}

fD founder participates in Aesthetic Justice seminar (May 14) in NYC

Estonia & NYC: Sharing the Model of Critical Hosting

World Press Freedom Day (May 3) & the 'Exile' International cartoon exposition

Supporting Community Art Spaces in Senegal & Brazil

MEMORIAM: Juliano Mer-Khamis, inspiration and co-founder of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, murdered

CHINA - Ai Weiwei imprisoned

LIMA, PERU: Presentation of Spanish-language guide for Art Spaces Hosting Activism

Sale of Emiko Kasahara's limited print to benefit Japanese organization, Children without Borders

Thami Mnyele was both an artist and a freedom fighter... Celebrate 20 years of the Thami Mnyele Foundation

Makan(dot)NOW, Featured MidEast Art Space + Arts & Democracy transcript on the role of Culture in Revolutionary Times

Precarity & Intersectionality

March 2nd Conference Call on Democracy Movements in Egypt, the Middle East & North Africa

Condemning the assassination of our compañero, artist and social animator Victor Leiva

February 18 Elections in Uganda // Honoring slain school teacher & LGBT activist David Kato

Singer & Kurdish spokesperson Ferhat Tunç gets 25 day prison sentence just before Music Freedom Day '11

Egypt, the Distance between Populism & Revolt

Chobi Mela in Dhaka this week // Founder Shahidul Alam joins fD Advocates

Limits to Free Speech? Symposium on Freedom of Speech & Online resource on Inflammatory Speech

Belarus Free Theatre in New York

Prominent Chinese Artist’s Studio Torn Down

Mozambican artist, activist, lawmaker, Malangatana Ngwenya dies at 74

Theatre actors imprisoned in Zimbabwe

CRF seeds Asia Distress Fund

Taalifkat Tudunya Workshop at Gorée Institute

CRF joins Solidarity Fund for Belarus Free Theatre

Against Oppression—Kianoush Ramezani’s Drawings {World Policy Blog #5}

Director's Note - Belarus Free Theatre Activist Jailed & Opposition Candidate Disappeared

How a Prize Helps

Fund Creative Resistance!

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Human Rights Day 2010

A Time to Experiment

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Being (T)here: Creating in the Borderlands

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Wasan Meeting

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A project we like: The Impossible Music Sessions

Freeing Belarus through Theatre {World Policy Blog #4}

Zimbabwe Artist Maseko Finalist for Freedom to Create Prize

'Men & Women' by Umida Akhmedova screens in NYC

Free Belarus - Literary & Human Rights organizations campaign together in weeks before election

Building up to a Fund

Chaw ei Thein Fights Burma's Junta with Performance and Paintings {World Policy Blog #3}

Amplifying Critical Voices

Res Artis & Wooloo help promote the Creative Resistance Fund

Issa Nyaphaga - The Art of Exile {World Policy Blog #2}

Abazar Hamid - Supporting Culture in the Face of Injustice {World Policy Blog #1}

fD partners with networks to archive Mobility Stories

fD receives award @ Festival Against Censorship in Bilbao

Future Residency talks @ Res Artis meeting in Montreal

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