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Stories / Arts

We believe that art is another mode of truth. To detect truth we collaborate with artists, we produce stories about and by artists. These stories look into how human rights and ecological issues inform their work and whereby their work generates impact.

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africanart
April 29, 2020
The return of stolen African artefacts by European museums
topic: Colonialism
by: Bob Koigi
The need to return African treasures stashed in European museums rekindles memories of the forceful entry to Africa and its impact on generations.
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gender electronic music
April 17, 2020
Smashing the patriarchy one BPM at a time
topic: Women’s rights
by: Anu Shukla
Race and gender inequality in the music industry have continued over eons. And the electronic music scene has certainly been no innocent bystander.
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italy migration
February 24, 2020
Solo Andata - Everyone is a migrant
topic: Refugees and Asylum
by: Lev Nordstrom
partner: Greedy for Best Music
Italy's Canzionere Grecanico Salentino release a haunting tribute to "The Uncountable"
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Newton
December 16, 2019
"The Unter-class is the Whole Ecosystem"
topic: Arts
by: Hanno Hauenstein
Long before global warming entered public consciousness, Newton Harrison considered its effects through maps, talks, and various other artistic means.
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05
July 08, 2019
Music over migration or early marriage
topic: Arts
by: Magdalena Rojo
In Calmécac, students study music but they also learn how to value their indigenous culture and share it with others.
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Jesús Cossio
April 08, 2019
The power of a comic as historical memory
topic: Peace and Reconciliation
by: Pablo Pérez Álvarez
Jesús Cossio (Lima, 1974) is a Peruvian comic illustrator who has published several comic books and graphic works focused in the internal conflict in Peru.
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bykidsmike Kopie
March 25, 2019
Films BYkids: a new era of global engagement and education
topic: Child rights
by: Yair Oded
BYkids teams up children from across the world with filmmakers in order to document global issues from their own point of view.
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Medellin
March 22, 2019
"Who has won this war?"
topic: Peace and Reconciliation
by: Pablo Pérez Álvarez
Route 60, which connects the two most important cities of Colombia, Medellín and Bogotá, became between 1990 and 2000 a scenario of terror and death.
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DAWDA_JOBARTEH_Sascha_Kajic
March 20, 2019
Senegambian Vibes
topic: Arts
by: Frank Odenthal
One of the rising stars in kora music is the Gambian Dawda Jobarteh. FAIRPLANET had a word with him about his new album and his evolution as a kora player.
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Kenya
February 27, 2019
The patent wars pitting Africa against multinationals
topic: Economic Fairness
by: Bob Koigi
How a video of the national anthem posted on Youtube received a copyright strike.
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Unbenannt-1
February 07, 2019
The sky‘s the limit for Sebastian Urbanski
topic: Human Rights
by: Frank Odenthal
Down syndrome did not stop Sebastian Urbanski becoming a member of the federal Executive Board of the German organisation, Lebenshilfe.
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UK univsity
January 08, 2019
Excel spreadsheets and walkie talkies
topic: Economic Inclusion
partner: Screen Shot
Are we stuck in a limbo between a past of steady promotions and less competition and a bright future of universal pay, four day weeks and automation?
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IMG-20181108-WA0010
November 26, 2018
Monetizing plastic waste through art … Serge Attukey shows the way
topic: Arts
by: Kwabena Adu Koranteng
Renowned American sociologist, Charles Horton Cooley once said “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one”.
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trump painting
November 07, 2018
There's a new painting in the White House
topic: Arts
partner: Screen Shot
Donald Trump is not a man known for his taste.
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October 08, 2018
A festival of misery – and a mirror of society?
topic: Human Rights
by: Gurmeet Singh
Does a Human Rights Film Festival in a European capital make sense? It does!
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serverfarm
July 03, 2018
How to uncover the ghost wars behind our digital overload
topic: Political violence
Where algorithms form the modern day confirmation bias, we are less radical than we think we are.
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genocide_Yezidis
July 02, 2018
The Yazidis genocide
topic: Human Rights
by: Federica Tedeschi
‘Every tear has a story if you are ready to listen’, says Zina Hamu, a Yazidi woman, who survived the ISIS capture.
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ghana traffic
May 14, 2018
Saving Ghana’s environment, a rap line at a time
topic: Arts
by: Bob Koigi
Young Ghanians have taken the driver’s seat in advocating for an environmentally clean country; music, the language spoken by all, may save the day.
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kabul books
January 15, 2018
Insecure copyrights are a big issue for Afghan writers
topic: Good Governance
by: Shadi Khan Saif
Since 2008, copyright in Afghanistan has been governed by the law on the support the right of authors, composers, artists, researchers. What happened since?
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Nigeria Boko Haram
January 11, 2018
Saving victims of Nigeria’s Boko Haram with art
topic: Arts
by: Bob Koigi
FairPlanet spoke with Kunle Adewale, founder and Executive Director of Tender Arts Nigeria, who is using art to heal victims of Boko Haram.
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