Walking regularly through the Brussels Wetstraat, heading for the centre, I pass an open air exhibition set up by the www.thehumanrightsproject.org. Kinda hard finding them online, if you Google stuff like human rights project.org ... but found them anyway. The frustrating thing is that so far, no one ever bothers to stop, look and digest what they are seeing here. Let me quote from the site as to what the aim of the project is:
"The Declaration of Human Rights is a manifest that evolved from the founding of the United Nations in 1948. Whether or not it was meant by all UN participants as an achievable maxim for the post war world, it does remain a vital testimonial to the assumption that the people of the entire world should have access to the dignity of their species. However, a cursory glance around the world today makes clear that the 30 articles contained within the declaration of Human Rights have, for the most part, been ignored, and are likely to remain ignored (...) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is translated into 360 languages, there has never been a visual interpretation of this kind of the complete Declaration of Human Rights." Which means it's picture stories we get to see here, powerful images.
This one illustrates the fact that everyone has a right to education (article 26).
Please take a moment to look at them, when you pass them by?
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