Vision and Mission
Vision
Creating Rights explores bridges between art and human rights. We believe that art has the potential to open up a space for communication and create an opportunity for reflection and understanding on human rights and international justice. As a powerful form of expression, art contributes to the understanding and the application of human rights. Since its inception, the human rights movement has evolved and paved the way towards a comprehensive body of human rights law, conventions and treaties. However, the human rights framework is also the outcome of the determination and hard work of artists, activists, and other creative individuals across different countries. As such, they have a crucial role in our societies in contributing to the ongoing discussion on human rights.
Mission
Creating Rights’ mission is to create a platform designed to gather and expand expert knowledge on the intersection of art and international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and transitional justice. Sharing knowledge and experiences, learning from practitioners and researchers in their fields of interest, and bringing support to artists, activists and other professionals are at the forefront of Creating Rights’ strategy.
Creating Rights gives visibility and open a space for artists and other professionals to bring forth their ideas, projects and reflections, and to connect and build relationships towards collaborating and networking. We work with lawyers, artists, historians, curators, social scientists and activists. The interdisciplinarity of Creating Rights’ work allows for such issues to be exposed and explored outside the traditional and professional frameworks they are developed in. This opens up a dialogue beyond national and thematic borders and deepens actions in these domains.
What we do
Consulting and training activities are undertaken by the Director of Creating Rights, Fiana Gantheret, a Freelance Consultant with 15 years of international legal experience in national and international organizations. Our diverse team at Creating Rights also works to support the activities of the organization. Consultants and experts bring in their expertise on specific projects.
Our focus/actions:
– Creating Rights offers a platform to share information and ideas on projects in the following fields and their interaction with art: Human Rights, International Justice, Transitional Justice, and Humanitarian and conflict-related issues.
– Creating Rights connects individuals and seeks to expand the realm of collaboration between practitioners, activists and scholars, in both art and international law.
– Creating Rights performs consulting services with the view of contributing to the ongoing discussion on art and human rights.
– Creating Rights conducts research and prepares reports and studies on existing policies and practices in national, regional and international settings on the use of art in the human rights and transitional justice fields.
– Creating Rights intervenes in conferences and workshops and offers networking opportunities in The Hague, The Netherlands, the city of international peace and justice.
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Creating Rights Board
Fiana Gantheret, Director
Specialized in International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law, Fiana is a freelance consultant in the fields of international human rights law and transitional justice with over ten years of professional experience in international and national organizations. She was looking for the way to combine this professional expertise with her earlier studies in Philosophy and personal interest in art. Creating Rights is therefore the way for her to participate to the fields of human rights and international law by providing a creative way to look at them.
Fiana has a profound curiosity about people and envisioned Creating Rights to be a platform connecting individuals in the fields of art and human rights and giving visibility to their projects and activities in a way that respects their visions.
Alex Eenink, Treasurer
Alex is s a self-employed financial who is putting his expertise to use for the development of Creating Rights. After his employment for different tax consultancy and accountancy firm, he started his own business in which he proactively assists entrepreneurs in growing and developing their activities. By being a sparring partner for these business owners, he assists them in making strategic decisions based on the financial data. Alex also fulfills interim (management) roles in several organizations.
Scott Guthrie, Secretary and Senior Project Manager
Scott is a professional project manager with over twenty years experience working in the arts and entertainment sector, and has been involved with over 200 productions, installations, events, and presentations. Having recently relocated to The Hague, he is happy to apply his skills to help fulfill the vision and mission of Creating Rights. His experiences have shown him that art speaks to us by piercing through the labels of nationality, race, and religion and reaches us at our core where we are all human beings. He is a true believer in the collaborative power of art to engage, educate, and entertain people in the human condition.
The Team
Lucie Prazak
Lucie possesses a sound experience from private sector and as an international civil servant. She began Human Resources career in the UK, in recruitment within micro electronics sector in Europe, then she moved to HR at Oshkosh Corporation (Fortune 500 company) specialised in manufacturing of heavy machinery. In Netherlands she has worked for OPCW, the international organisation specialised in the elimination of chemical weapons. She is passionate about art and human resources, which is how she arrived at Creating Rights. In spare time she runs races to raise money for Antony van Leeuwenhoek hospital in Amsterdam.
Nolwenn Guibert, Blog contributor
Nolwenn is an international criminal lawyer with established experience in international courts. She contributes to Creating Rights in her personal capacity. She is excited by the unique vision of Creating Rights and the opportunity to combine her professional expertise with her life-long interest for the arts. Nolwenn is particularly keen to contribute to discussions on the interactions of ballet and human rights.
Njomza Miftari, Project Manager, Researcher and Blog contributor
Njomza’s educational background is in Justice Studies and Public Policy and International Relations. She obtained her first degree from Loyalist College in Canada and second at Rochester Institute of Technology in Kosovo. She has been working in development and Rule of Law for the past several years and is now focusing on Human Rights, particularly Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Guyana, South America. She also paints herself on her free time.
Juliette Remond-Tiedrez, Researcher and Blog contributor
Juliette is a master student of Leiden University in Public International Law. For her thesis, she is focusing on international criminal law and Darfur, Sudan. She joined Creating Rights in November 2017 to add practical experience to her theoretical training in Human Rights.