Award Ceremony for the International Contest for Minority Artists

The International Art Contest for Minority Artists is organized since 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and its partners, the NGOs Freemuse and Minority Rights Group International (MRG), and the City of Geneva. The Contest serves as a platform for minority artists human rights defenders, who work on a variety of themes relating to minority rights and human rights. Organized with the support of the Centre des arts of Ecolint, the third edition of the Contest focuses on the theme of Minorities and Memory in the Present.

During the award ceremony of 26 November, the laureates of the third edition of the Contest will be celebrated. Coming from different countries and contexts, the artists honoured at this ceremony are all distinguished by their artistic commitment, and their deeply personal interpretation of both intimate and collective experiences as members of national, linguistic, religious or ethnic minorities. In countries where minorities have been confronted with a history of human rights violations, the artistic and creative work of memorialization is crucial to advancing reparation, reconciliation and transitional justice. The artists honoured at this Ceremony all shed light, each in their own way, on how the recognition of the past and memory are inexorably linked to the realization of human rights in the present and the future.

19:00-20:00: Ceremony - presentation of Awards and Honourable Mentions to the laureates of the 2024 edition of the Contest
20:00-21:00: Cocktail reception
The Ceremony will be held in English, with simultaneous translation into French available. Please arrive at the Ceremony by 18:30-18:45.

The "Art, Minorities and Human Rights" exhibition will also be installed at the Centre des arts, and participants will be able to visit.

Credits: Francis Estrada, “Mga Nalimutan [The forgotten]” (inspired by a photograph by Joe Galvez), 2017