Visualizing Human Rights

Every day ordinary people at home and abroad struggle to maintain their human dignity in the face of hunger, lack of adequate housing and health care, and the repressive and neglectful actions and omissions of their governments. What do these human rights abuses look like? How do they feel? How are human rights and wrongs experienced in personal terms, and what difference do they make to our lives?

In an unconventional forum, “Visualizing Human Rights” (VHR) brings together painters, photographers, writers, poets, filmmakers, and printmakers to put a human face on human rights in an effort to reach beyond traditional academic approaches.

The Center for Global Initiatives staged the first VHR forum on November 15, 2008 in Chapel Hill. The next forum will take place in Asheville, NC on November 14, 2009.

For more information, please contact cgi@unc.edu.