Violence, bullying and dehumanization begin when we stop seeing the person in front of us. At ISHRIGHTS, we use art to help people see each other again. Through paintings, photography, music and the stories behind them, we bring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights out of the textbook and into classrooms, campuses and cities. In our Human Rights Class in a Box program, students from kindergarten to university don’t just learn their rights. They feel them, create with them, and carry them home. From elementary schools in Miami to universities in Andorra and Spain, we’ve seen one lesson take root again and again: a young person who understands dignity learns to defend it. Join us. Every artwork, every classroom and every conversation brings us closer to a world where human rights are lived, not just written. . Our vision is the same as that of the mother of the UDHR, “First Lady of the World” Eleanor Roosevelt, who said in 1958: “Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world”. (Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Great Question,” remarks delivered at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 1958). The Core International Human Rights Instruments and their monitoring bodies The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Core International Human Rights Instruments and their monitoring bodiesEducating about human rights through art.
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