ON Human Rights Day the Netherlands Embassy recognized Filipino artist collective Dakila with the second “Embassy Tulip” award for human rights, in a reception hosted by Ambassador Marielle Geraedts.
Dakila is an artist-activist collective who has pioneered “creative resistance” by harnessing the power of arts, media and popular culture in popularizing human rights and democratic values in the Philippines. Since it was founded 17 years ago, it has created a community of artists and activists of all ages that integrates Filipino culture and values in countering efforts to discredit human-rights work, and in reclaiming and shaping the human rights movement.
Dakila’s Secretary-General Leni Velasco remarked: “[With] this Tulip Award, we in Dakila, our Active Vista Center, and the breadth of our constituency, renew our commitment to ignite this movement of heroism, and usher in a new generation of heroes that will creatively resist amid fear and despair, that loves radically between the gaps and crevices of social polarization and division, and disrupts an angry, hateful world with kindness and empathy built on justice.
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