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UDHR 60 Years: What Image Opened Your Eyes to Human Rights?

Posted by Marc | 9-12-2008 22:38 | Category: Human rights

For 15 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, they have put together this short video with different WITNESS staff talking about images that opened their eyes to human rights abuses around the world.

And for this project WITNESS ask you: What video or image opened your eyes to human rights?

I don’t have a particular image or video in mind but I was shocked when I first heard about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo) during the 1978 FIFA World Cup (football) held in Argentina.

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We have received an outpouring of responses people talking what images have changed people’s lives, and thank you so much for helping to spread the word.

Posted by dlmWITNESS | 12-12-2008 20:21

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