"The Universality of Human Rights"

Len Breen 1999. Acrylic on Paper - 203cm x 185cm. Catalogue Ref: 980928

Purchased by the staff of Amnesty International, International Secretariat in 2002.

Dedicated to the memory of:

GILLAN "GILLIAN" NOEL (1950-2001)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT

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The image comprises a number of symbols:

• the table, a place where we gather for communication/discourse, a place where we come to share, hence a 'universality' representing the right to the quality of involving or sharing by people in the world.
  
  
• The table upon the table: symbolises the authenticity of this universality, is a truth very place human rights are universal facts - absolutely true and always correct, everywhere, all the time, under any condition.
  
  
• The chequered globe represents the whole earth;
  
  
• the red sun, all cultures and people;
  
  
• the sky, our optimism.