Campaigns and Solidarity
The FIA Secretariat often receives critical information from its affiliates requiring immediate support from our global membership. Please check this page regularly for updates to make certain your assistance is timely and most effective. This page also features follow-up information on solidarity actions coordinated or relayed by the Federation.
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06.04.2023FIA proudly supports American Actors’ Equity
The International Federation of Actors and its affiliates around the world pledge solidarity and support to American...[more]
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22.12.2022Free Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti !
Actress Taraneh Alidoosti during a photo call for the film 'The Salesman' at the 69th international Cannes Film Festival on...[more]
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26.10.2022FIA proudly supports brothers and sisters in Ukraine
Soon after the outbreak of the unlawful and shameful war wedged by the Russian government against the peoples of Ukraine,...[more]
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25.03.2022Violence and Harassment in the Workplace in the Audiovisual...
In July 2021, the regional groups of the International Federation of Actors (FIA-LA) and the Media, Entertainment & Arts...[more]
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16.11.2020
FIA & fellow European organisations join forces to support...
Our organisations, representing authors, screenwriters, directors, actors, crew, producers and members of the film community...[more]
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21.10.2016FIA unions around the world united with SAG-AFTRA members...
The International Federation of Actors firmly stands by SAG-AFTRA members in the US as they strike to earn very reasonable...[more]
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07.04.2016The professional status of performers under threat in France
Outrage among professional performers is growing over the adoption on second reading of the "Creation" bill...[more]
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19.01.2016Looking for a theatre in Madagascar? How about penguins...
If you Google "theatre in Madagascar" nowadays, all you are likely to get is information about a popular animation...[more]
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04.09.2015FIA stands in solidarity with Levent Üzümcü after his...
At the end of August 2015, Levent Üzümcü, well-know Turkish actor and member of the Actors’ Union of Turkey, one of FIA...[more]
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07.05.2015Fair Internet for Performers campaign kicks off successfully
One day prior to the European Commission public presentation on May 6 of its Digital Single Market strategy, EuroFIA, FIM,...[more]
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10.03.2015Building capacity in Africa
(More pictures are available on the FIA Flikr account) Solidarity is not a term that we, at FIA, take lightly and if...[more]
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08.01.2015FIA stands in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo victims along...
Source: IFJ Website (Brussels, 8.1.2015) Over 200 Brussels-based journalists and supporters gathered together at the...[more]
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10.12.2014Outcome of the Rome Opera Conflict: Reinstatement of the...
On the 25 November 2014, during a full session, Rome Opera House staff approved by 97% the agreement signed two days earlier...[more]
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13.10.2014Block dismissal of all artists employed by the Rome Opera
A shocking decision by the public authorities in Italy decided to lay off all orchestra musicians and members of the choir...[more]
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11.06.2014Solidarity with the workers of ERT, the Public Service...
The overnight closure of ERT on June 11th 2013 sent a shockwave through the international community. A wave of protest...[more]
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08.05.2014
FIA signs Declaration on the Inclusion of Culture in the...
“We believe that culture is both a driver and enabler of sustainable development and that the explicit inclusion of targets...[more]
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20.09.2013
FIA denounces the shocking assassination of Greek rapper...
The International Federation of Actors (FIA) joins its Greek member the Hellenic Actors’ Union and the worldwide artistic...[more]
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15.01.2013
Cuban theatres destroyed after hurricane Sandy: Call for...
In the backdrop of the destructive consequences caused by Hurricane Sandy, Cuban FIA member UNEAC reaches out to the...[more]
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21.09.2012
Sign the petition to free Zakaria Zubeidi, co-founder of...
Zubeidi has been held since May 13 and has now been sentenced by the Palestinian Authority to another 19 days of prison. In...[more]
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12.09.2012
FIA expresses its support to Russian band Pussy Riot
Following the condemnation of the band’s members to a two-years imprisonment for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”...[more]
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02.02.2012Support Australian performers and sign Australian Actors...
FIA's Australian member Actors Equity is running a campaign to encourage theatre producers to renew their commitment to...[more]
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01.12.2009
FIA calls for the release from Prison of Burmese actor U...
During FIA’s last Executive Committee and EuroFIA meetings, our British affiliate Equity UK reminded the present members the...[more]
