Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights; December 10th, 1948, fresh from the horrors human visited upon human in the Second World War, the articles of the Declaration were read out. Sadly even today in free and democratic societies, let alone corrupt dictatorships, a number of these articles are routinely ignored, circumvented or simply broken; a good reason to remind ourselves of them
(one of the works from the Sketching Human Rights Cartoon Exhibition sponsored by the UN and currently touring; this cartoon is by Heiko Sakarai)
Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Comics and cartoons