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Artistic and legal objects: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings depicting detention at Guantanamo

29 April 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Warning: this post contains sensitive drawings which some people may find disturbing. What is art? Is Abu Zubaydah’s drawings of the torture methods used against him “art”? As explained in an article published in the newspaper The New York Times on December 4, 2019, Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi national who was arrested in Pakistan…

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Children’s Drawings of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

14 May 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Warning: this post contains sensitive photographs which some people may find disturbing. The Shoah Memorial in Paris is hosting, from the 4th of April to the 17th of November, a commemorative exhibition of the genocide against the Tutsi, 25 years after it happened (as a small reminder, from April to mid-July 1994, almost…

ASEAN Youth Competition on Arts and Human Rights

Drawing Events 24 April 2014 0Comments 0Reactions

The Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations organizes a Youth Competition on Arts and Human Rights. The aim is to raise awareness about human rights and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) adopted in November 2012 among its youth. Young nationals (between the ages of 18 and 25) of the ten ASEAN Members…