The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, CIISA, has launched ‘The CIISA Standards’, which set out the minimum standards of behaviour expected across the UK’s creative industries to enable safe and inclusive working environments.
Academy Award Nominated Director Nisha Pahuja, collaborating with NGOs Equality Now, Equimundo, and MenEngage Alliance, has launched global gender justice campaign #StandWithHer, inspired by Pahuja’s Oscar® nominated 2024 documentary, To Kill a Tiger.
A compelling video produced by SVRI brings together prominent experts to explore what the field needs to deliver evidence-based solutions that respond to local needs and that have the greatest potential to create lasting change.
Time’s Up UK and US-based diversity and inclusion platform Black Beauty Roster (BBR) have joined forces to celebrate and champion hair and makeup equity on set at an inaugural salon event held across BAFTA weekend at Claridges, London with a host of British talent and industry leaders including: Adjoa Andoh, Barbara Broccoli, Emma Naomi, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Dame Heather Rabbatts, Naomie Harris, Maude Okrah-Hunter, Sam McKnight, Samuel Adewunmi & Vernon François.
“If you’re black you were born in jail,” said Malcolm X, the Black nationalist leader whose spirit of resistance spoke to people worldwide. Reviled by white America during the Civil Rights era, after his assassination in 1965, many viewed him as a prophetic revolutionary. This year marks one hundred years from his birth, and his global legacy…
The short film festival committed to addressing violence against women returns for its seventh edition from Nov 25 – Dec 10th (London, UK, Wednesday 21st November 2024) – 16 DAYS 16 FILMS today announces its jury line-up for this year’s short film festival. The Jury includes actress/writer Zawe Ashton , Tabitha Morton (Executive Director at…
First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, Colombia sets a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most countries represented at a childhood violence summit
The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, CIISA, is proud to announce the appointment of four board members who join Baroness Helena Kennedy as CIISA’s first Board
A new watchdog for standards of behaviour in TV, film, music and theatre aims to create “a much safer environment” for workers after years of revelations about abuse, bullying and harassment, its bosses have said.
Five writers from Afghanistan share days from their journals of exile. This edition is a collaboration with Untold Narratives.
In light of the huge challenges that so many arts and culture organisations have faced in recent years, Watershed’s Clare Reddington shares five ‘rules’ for turning your organisation round.