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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Online voting to decide human rights logo
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The top ten designs of a logo for human rights have been chosen and online voting for the best one runs until September 17. 15,375 logo suggestions from over 190 countries – that is the result of the submission phase of the global online competition “A Logo for Human Rights.” Since the initiative started on May 3, people from all over the world have participated in the logo competition, the largest of its kind so far. They sent in suggestions and rated the ideas of others.
The 10 finalists chosen by the jury are now online and the voting to choose the best one has started. From August 27 to September 17, everybody can vote for their favourites at www.humanrightslogo.net. All people worldwide are encouraged to participate by choosing their favourite logo. This would put the original idea of the competition into practice: the creation of a human rights logo by the people for the people.
The winning logo will be presented on September 23 in New York alongside the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The presentation will be broadcast worldwide via Internet.
Nearly everybody knows that a heart symbolises love and a dove means peace. But what is the symbol for human rights? The answer is that there is none. There are 6.8 billion people living on this planet. All of them have human rights – and yet we still have no way of overcoming language barriers to communicate this universal bond symbolically. We want to fill this gap and make a peaceful contribution to strengthening human rights with the “Logo for Human Rights” initiative.
Who supports the initiative? A jury of renowned and high-ranking personalities. They include UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and five Nobel Peace Prize winners – Aung San Suu Kyi, Shirin Ebadi, Muhammad Yunus, Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter – as well as children’s rights activist Angelina Acheng Atyam, supermodel and women’s rights activist Waris Dirie, human rights activist Princess Basma bint Talal, human rights acitivst Mukhtar Mai, human rights activist Carolyn Gomes, human rights activist Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu and internationally renowned design experts such as Ahmad Humeid, Javier Mariscal, Erik Spiekermann and others. The foreign ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mauritius, Senegal, Singapore, and Uruguay who had taken the initiative in creating a platform for the logo competition are also participating.
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