Artwork: Billboard by Jeremy Deller for World Human Rights Day, UK, 2020
On December 10 in Paris, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights document was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. To mark World Human Rights Day, British artist Jeremy Deller (@jeremydeller) in collaboration with the designer Fraser Muggeridge and Jack Arts Agency has created a series of billboards across the UK, highlighting places in the world where people are denied their fundamental rights. These include Xinjiang Province China, Evin Prison Tehran, the Amazon Rainforest, the Mediterranean Sea, Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in Gatwick in the UK, Flint Michigan, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, the Amazon rainforest, Ecatepec Mexico, and Khirbet Humsah Occupied West Bank.
Artwork: Billboard by Jeremy Deller for World Human Rights Day, UK, 2020
Regarding the project, Jeremy Deller stated: “Violation of human rights exists everywhere, regardless of what else is going on in the world and we wanted to say that today is Human Rights Day for people across the world, even if they aren’t having their rights respected. There were thousands of locations to choose from”.
The posters will be up until the end of the month. And rightly, Deller said: “Really this is just a reminder. Every day should be Human Rights Day, that’s what I’m saying with this.”