Families. UNESCO, Human Rights: Exhibition Album (1949). Author provided Scenes of war. However a counter-narrative of atrocity and what it termed “struggle” was introduced through scenes of war.

Members have begun sorting through images from around the world, such as the Syria Archive, a database of more than 2000 videos showing possible human rights abuses in Syria over the last few years.

Brooklyn-based collage artist Mark Wagner is well-known for his series of meticulously crafted “currency portraits” made from deconstructed dollar bills reassembled into the faces of ...

Holocaust photos also influenced the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundational human rights document first published in 1948. The preamble to that text, which shapes many ...

Many of UNESCO’s 1949 photographs could be accused of picturing a falsely harmonious human “family” – literally, in this instance, by showing a collage of four families from different ...

Nearly 70 years ago, in December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At this time, the UN’s cultural arm, UNESCO, sought to harness ...