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Human Rights Nights is the 1st festival entirely dedicated to human rights in Italy. Since 2001, every year we organise in the city of Bologna 10 days of cinema, arts and music of human rights - debates, conferences, concerts, dance and theatre performances, photographic and arts exhibitions, sport events, fashion and world cuisines - to promote and raise awareness on human rights for the protection of people rights and the recognition of the value of cultural diversity in our plural society.

The 15° edition of the festival will be this year in Bologna from 8th to 17th May 2015, dedicated to FOOD, EARTH, HUMAN  RIGHTS and DIVERSITY. On this occasion we will also open the Mercatino Verde del Mondo - World Green Market, a delicious fair of gourmet cuisines from all over the world in Bologna.

WHO WE ARE?

Human Rights Nights is an organisation founded in 2013 to promote human rights, after more than 10 years of cultural and social activity, local action and international cooperation, in partnership with Cineteca di Bologna/ Bologna Film Archive, Municipality of Bologna and the University of Bologna. Recently created by the same people who organized the Human Rights Nights Festival since the beginning, this new organisation has in fact a curriculum of experience, activities and projects of many years. Human Rights Nights is a no-profit organization that aims to promote human rights by giving value to cultural diversity and participation in our contemporary plural society.

HUMAN RIGHTS NIGHTS FESTIVAL 

Since 2001, the Festival has grown considerably: from 6 documentary films to 60 (including national movie previews); from 300 people in its first edition to more than 30,000. Since 2006, the festival became not just a place for cinema, but also for contemporary art, music and a meeting point for important guests as: Nobel Prize Winners Luis Sepulveda, Dario Fo and Wislawa Szimborska; producers and film-directors as Fernando Solanas, Gianni Minà, Avi Mograbi, Elia Sivan, Saverio Costanzo, Gianfranco Rosi, Cesar Brie, Fabrizio Grosoli, Laura Marcellino, writers Carlo Lucarelli, Pino Cacucci, Marcello Flores; journalists Rula Jebreal and Roberto Silvestri; festival directors Marco Müller, Arabi Mocheke, Keith Shiri, Kebour Ghenna, Humberto Mancilla, Julio Santucho; actors Mohamed Bakri, Chiwetel Ejiofor; and important actors of culture and cinema of the city of Bologna such as Vittorio Boarini, Chiara Segafredo, Guy Lydster, Dim Sampaio, Aliona Shumakova, Elfi Reiter, Gianni Sofri, Matilde Callari Galli, Roberto Grandi, Anna Maria Gentili, Andrea Segrè.

Human Rights Nights is a key reference center for human rights in Bologna and worldwide, in partnerships with a strong network of local and international organizations, institutions and activists. Together, we develop every year specific human rights themes to deeply address during the festival or through social communication campaigns. Human Rights Nights has always focused on the plurality of contemporary society, committed to promote an intercultural society that respects people without any forms of racism and discrimination. Specifically, it aims to create opportunities for meeting and spaces for communication, to promote citizenship through active participation and advocacy.

WHAT DO WE DO?

Our main activity is the Human Rights Nights Festival, but we also work throughout the whole year to achieve our goals of promoting human and civil rights - through cultural and artistic events, social communication campaigns, social actions, lobbying and advocacy, education and rehabilitation projects for youth, in partnerships with local activist networks human rights festivals in the world. We are founding member of the Human Rights Film Network, which now comprise 38 human rights film festivals around the world and main partners of AfricanBamba Human Rights Festival in Thiaroye, Senegal.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

Due to current crisis in Italy, some of our regular donors have not been able to renew this year their contribution to the festival, we are short of some of the essential budget to cover the expenses that we need to have for the organisation and production of Human Rights Nights. In particular for our coming festival in Bologna, planned from the 8th to 17th May 2015, we still need to raise some essential funding, to be able to cover our  basic cash outflow. Consider that we are all working as volunteers and none of us in the team have regular jobs, but we are deeply engaged with our passion to do  everything we can to ensure that Human Rights Nights continue to exist as a special important opportunity to sharing its vision for a world of peace and justice, where all people are respected, diversity is valorised and the environment we live in is taken care of. But we need help! For this, we are here, asking you too to contribute to make this year Human Rights Nights Festival to be!

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Join our crowdfunding campaign! Your contribution will make it possible for us to organise this year festival!!! Choose from our perks the one that you like most, and get it!! In doing so, you will be part of our festival. You will be one of our donors, but also you will get in exchange to experience a special part of it! Whether will be a dinner with our top musician or one of our filmmakers in competition, or getting to know some of our special Chef of world gourmet cuisine, you will be touched by Human Rights Nights. 

Your small contribution is very precious for us! If all of us make a small contribution, all together we make a big contribution!! We can do it if we are all together!

And come see us, join the Festival! Human Rights Nights is not just us! You are, too! Join us, help us, work with us! If you are an artist, a NGO, a filmmaker, a scholar, a chef, a creative... send us your ideas for the festival and our human rights events!

Finally, help us by sharing our project: share and “like” us in Facebook, follow us in Twitter and take a look at our HRNs blog (www.humanrightsnights-community.org) and our website www.humanrightsnights.org