The Human Rights Logo was created as part of the international initiative “Human Rights Logo” launched in 2010. The aim of the initiative was to develop a worldwide recognized logo in support of the global human rights movement.
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Winning Logo
The winning logo was created by Predrag Stakic from Serbia and combines the silhouettes of a hand and a bird. The logo should be perceived as a peaceful contribution to the promotion of human rights and, as such, to find distribution despite cultural and linguistic barriers.
The new logo of human rights is now available to all people as a work of “open access”. It is free from any rights and can be used by everyone, at any time and around the world without paying duties or obtaining permits.
Competition
The aim of the competition was to create a globally recognized symbol of human rights. To do this, on May 3, 2011 ( World Press Freedom Day ), a worldwide online contest was launched with an appeal to all people on the planet to send logo design projects and cast their votes for the submitted projects.
From more than 15 300 proposals from more than 190 countries of the world, a jury of prominent personalities from July 2011 selected the top ten projects. Of these dozens, the Internet community selected the winner logo [3] during a three-week vote.
The official completion of the competition took place on September 23, 2011 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Winner Logo Presentation
The presentation of the winning logo took place on September 23, 2011 and was timed to coincide with the session of the UN General Assembly . The presentation was moderated by Michael Elliot, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine.
TV journalist Anne Carrie, German Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and human rights activists Caroline Gomez from Jamaica and Angelina Acheng Atiyam from Uganda emphasized the importance of this universal symbol in the fight for human rights throughout the world.
The musical climax of the evening was the performance of co-singer Jesse Norman .
Jury
The initiative was supported by an international jury, which, along with others, included [2] :
- Ai Weiwei (conceptual artist and human rights activist)
- Angelina Acheng Atyam (UN Human Rights Laureate)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
- Varis Dirie (model and fighter against female circumcision)
- Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
- Roland Emmerich (film director and producer)
- Caroline Gomez (human rights activist and pediatrician)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
- Mukhtar May (human rights activist)
- Princess Basma Bint Talal (Jordanian Princess and Human Rights Defender)
- Somalia Mom (human rights defender)
- Juanes (singer and peace activist)
- Navanetzhem Pillay (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- Paykassotu Saravanamuttu (human rights activist)
- Jimmy Wales (Founder, Wikipedia Encyclopedia)
- Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
In addition, the ministers of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Germany , Canada , Mauritius , Senegal , Singapore , Czech Republic , Chile and Uruguay took patronage on the creation of the platform for the initiative [3] .