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Songs of Slow Burning Earth takes the top honour at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival
25 Mar 2025 15:52 GMT
… Brink of Dreams scooped the Václav Havel Jury Award
Director Olha … the family unit.
The Václav Havel Jury Award for Best Film … on human rights in the face of patriarchal oppression. In the Czech … Dispeller (China/USA)
Václav Havel Jury Award for Best Film …
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New Poesiomat in Prague Brings History to Life with Havel’s Speech
25 Mar 2025 20:14 GMT
… them are a speech by Václav Havel, the last words of Jan … by Ondřej Kobza, the cultural activist behind Prague’s public pianos … Square is a symbol of Czech history, and this Poesiomat will … the 80th Poesiomat in the Czech Republic, with similar machines in …
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Renowned dissident playwright Athol Fugard dies at 92
10 Mar 2025 21:55 GMT
… News24 reported
A major political dissident playwright of the 20th … only by the dramas of Václav Havel in what was then … Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia. Havel was jailed and, when … the first president of the Czech Republic.
Fugard – despite setting …
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Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92
10 Mar 2025 20:07 GMT
… Africa.”
A major political dissident playwright of the 20th century … only by the dramas of Václav Havel in what was then … the first president of the Czech Republic. Fugard – despite setting … Africa: its dissident turned president in the Havel manner was Nelson …
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Cuban Human Rights Activist José Daniel Ferrer is Compared to Historic Figures Who ‘Left a Legacy’ Through Dialog
07 Feb 2025 06:31 GMT
… the Council for Democratic Transition
Vaclav Havel meets with former Cuban political … as their options, with complete freedom.”
In the document, shared exclusively … Luther King, Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel. In this view, Ferrer “is …
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Czech diplomacy Down Under: Jana Tyrer on her career and role as Czechia’s ambassador to Australia
26 Feb 2025 08:36 GMT
… accepting their diplomatic credentials|Photo: Czech Embassy in Canberra
“At the … made Rita Klímová a prominent dissident, organising private meetings of economists … , and worked alongside future presidents Václav Havel and Václav Klaus. Her professional life …
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Dancing to freedom in Iran
20 Feb 2025 20:17 GMT
… -communist dissident Václav Havel wrote a treatise on human rights when the Czech playwright wasn … ’s love for life, freedom and happiness is not something … , Iran’s most famous activist said, “The Evin women … seeing the light of freedom and hearing its voice.” …
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The Three Legacies of Vaclav Havel
30 Jan 2025 16:53 GMT
… Czech Republic (1993–2003); a philosophical legacy from his pre-1989 dissident … Babis and the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD … activists have been recognized by the Council of Europe’s Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize …
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19th Death Anniversary of President Rugova; Leader of the Powerful Movement for Freedom and Independence of Kosovo
21 Jan 2025 16:19 GMT
… for Kosovo's freedom and independence, leaving behind … attention to the severe human rights situation in Kosovo, advocating … Gandhi, Martin L. King, Václav Havel, Pope John Paul II, and … figures who contributed to the freedom and independence of Kosovo.
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Three candidates shortlisted for 2024 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize
27 Aug 2024 16:48 GMT
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize chose its list of … currently detained Azerbaijani human rights defender and political activist Akif Gurbanov, the … Babutsa Pataraia, a leading feminist activist and human rights lawyer in Georgia.
The …