Students Speak out about Human Rights
Posted by Lauren Fischer on December 10th 2008 in Events
All Images Courtesy | Art Center
In celebration of Human Rights Day, the California Art Center College of Design has created a provocative exhibit called Human Rights: Student Voices.
The exhibit, which was previously on display at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, will make its U.S. debut in the Great Hall at the Pasadena Central Library on Wednesday, December 10 and will be on display through January 4, 2009. A panel will follow to discuss the topic of human rights and the role of higher education institutions in advocating for human rights on December 11th.
The works address such issues at sweatshops, slavery and servitude, right to education, child soldiers, acid attacks and violence against women.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
It is great to see students involved in the quest for world wide attention of human rights. As a young college student in the early 1990’s I was a student during the genocide in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Most every day on the news were shown pictures of the latest mass killings, rapes, torture and death. It was terrible to have such a large amout of evil seen every day or on a hourly basis. What had our world come to I sometimes questioned during these years. Now more than 18 years later news of mass graves being unearthed in Bosnia-Hercegovina is still seen on the worlds news channels. The conflict in the Former Yugoslavis out lasted my college years and has continued close to two decades. This is one of the harsh indicators of the barbaric and massive amount of cruelty in the conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina when mass graves of people murdered in 1992 are routinely being unearthed in 2008!
Kevin Beck
Las Vegas, Nevada