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ILA engages with key international and regional multilateral bodies, including the United Nations Human Rights Council, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and European Union human rights mechanisms, to ensure that artistic freedom is recognized and protected as a core component of freedom of expression and cultural rights.

In Geneva, through sustained engagement at the United Nations Human Rights Council, ILA works to draw attention to the repression of artistic freedom worldwide. We contribute to UN resolutions, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) processes, the work of UN Special Procedures, and joint statements, ensuring that artists’ lived experiences inform policy debates and decision-making spaces where they have too often been absent.

At the European level, ILA is leading a flagship, long-term civil society initiative calling on the European Commission to develop a coherent and binding legal framework guaranteeing artistic freedom across the Union: the European Artistic Freedom Act. Acting as penholder on the draft legislation, ILA coordinates artists, legal experts, cultural institutions, and civil society organisations to articulate shared principles, document systemic threats, and translate them into concrete legal protections for artistic freedom at the EU level.