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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.

UK univsity
January 08th, 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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November 26th, 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 07th, 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 08th, 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 03rd, 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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July 02nd, 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 14th, 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 15th, 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 11th, 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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Joloffrice
October 16th, 2017
Jollof rice and the supremacy battles in West Africa
topic:Indigenous people
by:Bob Koigi
In a region that is known for its strict obsession with traditional foods, a debate about Jollof rice has moved from the kitchens to Mark Zuckerberg.
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October 02nd, 2017
Theatre vs. Trauma
topic:Arts
by:Neelo Aysha Scholz
Raphael Eilenberg is a final year theatre student from the London Guildhall. Last week saw the end of a theatre workshop he held with the refugee community.
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Stranger in a familiar land
September 25th, 2017
Stranger in a Familiar Land
topic:Arts
by:Florian Sturm
"We are all human beings despite the elements that make us different."
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Picasso Guernica
June 09th, 2017
The anniversary of an iconic anti-war masterpiece
topic:Arts
by:Pablo Pérez Álvarez
‘Guernica’, the iconic painting by Pablo Picasso, turns 80 this year. The Queen Sofia Museum celebrates the anniversary with an exhibition [...]
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February 27th, 2017
My Granddad’s car
topic:Arts
by:Federica Tedeschi
My Granddad’s car is the outcome of an ongoing project between British born artists Karl Ohiri and Sayed Hasan, who met in 2007 while attending Goldsmiths.
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February 24th, 2017
Occupy your street
topic:Sustainable Consumption
by:Pablo Pérez Álvarez
A citizen organization from Lima led by architects and sociologists tries to recover the street for the people, using urban micro-interventions.
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January 13th, 2017
Refugees find their voice through theatre
topic:Refugees and Asylum
by:Judith Vonberg
Inadequate provision of English classes and a lack of routes into work or study programmes are isolating many refugees in the UK, according to new research.
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December 19th, 2016
Tom Tykwer: "Africa is so foreign to us because it is so rarely mentioned"
topic:Arts
by:Nicole Sagener
"Kati Kati", the debut film of Kenyan director Mbithi Masya has been released in Germany. The director Tom Tykwer spoke to FairPlanet about African myths.
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December 07th, 2016
Street art protests in Tunisia
topic:Freedom of Expression
by:Sabri Zghidi
How Tunisian youth are protesting against the government with the strokes of their paint brushes.
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November 28th, 2016
Struggles against oblivion in Peru
topic:Peace and Reconciliation
by:Maria Clara Montoya
The dwellers of the biggest district in Southern Lima are working to rebuild citizens' implication, broken after the Peruvian internal conflict.
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November 07th, 2016
Kenyan author robbed of the Nobel Prize in Literature
topic:Arts
by:Chuma Nwokolo
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is among the most influential African contemporary writers He was the favorite for this year's Nobel Prize but Bob Dylan eventually won.
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