Human Rights Festival 2025 – The Right to Life for All Beings

The Program

The 2025 program offers space for dialogue, art, music, and action. The program components include:

• Dialogue in The Hague: Before the festival begins, join a guided conversation led by experienced dialogue facilitators about the rights of nature.
• Information Market: Visit the stands of all participating organizations to learn more and engage in different conversations about the rights of humans and nature.
• Lecture by Jan van de Venis: about the rights of nature and universal human rights.
• Rights of Nature Workshop: Experience in this mini-workshop how you can defend the rights of nature and give your own piece of nature a voice.
• Talk show table with Sahar and Mpanzu Bamenga: two guest speakers who, as former undocumented individuals, discuss living in freedom and safety.
• Vocal group KORALI: Ukrainian choral music about love and nature.
• The voice of nature – the voice of Afghan women: a recital of Afghan poetry by Somaia Ramish, Fatema Jafari & Esseline van de Sande, accompanied by the Syrian music group The Lebbos Family.
• Create your own screen print with natural materials at Muze’s Kus: an interactive experience where participants design and create a screen print using natural materials.
• Write for Rights by Amnesty International: write a letter, change a life.
• Dabke dance workshop: together we conclude the festival with dancing.