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    Global Human Rights Logo is Unveiled

    By Badertv  |  Posted September 29, 2011  |  New York City, New York
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Badertv produced this iReport regarding the unveiling of official universal logo for human rights in New York City. Badertv says: 'We were invited to cover the Human Rights logo unveiling event by the German Foreign Ministry [...] We produced this story for the CNN iReport because we felt its important for your global viewers to know there is now a universal symbol for Human Rights -- to embrace it and use it.'
    - elchueco, CNN iReport producer

    So the world now has a universal logo for human rights!

    At a historic gala event in New York City, an international committee of diplomats, leaders, activists, and celebrities unveiled the design of Predrag Stakic, a 32 year-old a freelance graphic designer from Belgrade, Serbia as the official universal logo for human rights.

     

    INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE CHOOSES DESIGN “BY THE PEOPLE - FOR THE PEOPLE”

    The Logo for Human Rights emerged from an online competition and voting process that began with more than 15,300 logo designs submitted by participants from more than 190 countries. After an initial pubic online vote that narrowed the field to 100 logos, an international jury narrowed the field to 10 finalists from which the pubic voted for the winning design.

    Designed “by the people and for the people” - the best logo was selected based on its simplicity, its ability to be instantly recognized, and its reproductibility in color, black-and-white, and in various sizes.

    Members of the Jury include Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Jimmy Carter, Muhammed Yunus, Mikhail Gorbachev and Shirin Ebadi, as well as Chinese artist AI Weiwei, Cambodian human rights activist Somaly Mam, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Colombian musician Juanes and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanathem Pillay.


    Among the supporters of the Logo for Human Rights include actress Kirsten Dunst, actors Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio representing Cinema for Peace), and the Bouazizi family from whom Mohamed Bouazizi was the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire and prompted the Tunisian Revolution).


    Legendary actor Robert De Nero feels a global Human Rights logo will now help centralize the message.

     

    The initiative is co-sponsored by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mauritius, Senegal, Singapore and Uruguay.

     

    As the ubiquitous “peace symbol” popularized in the 1960s represented a spirited, call-to-action for non-violent conflict resolution, the new logo for human rights stands as a peaceful contribution towards the global spread and implementation of human rights.


    Static receives a 5,000 euro prize.  (USD 6,745)


    Paola Cancellieri in New York City has more for the CNN iReport.

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