With a message that “yesterday’s races are today’s rights”, poster report of Amnesty International captures the race to protect human rights over the last 50 years. The poster exhibition “1975-2025: 50 Years of International Amnesty-Greek Department”, The first presented in Greece for the first time, is inaugurated today, Friday, October 10, at the Momus-Experimental Center of Arts, and is organized on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Greek section of Amnesty International.
‘This is a series of posters (about 100), derived from the international movement and are essentially A course in the evolution of human rights claims over the years, “explained the director of the Greek section of Amnesty International Christos Dimopoulos.
‘In fact, we see how The rights and their claims are evolved every decade. Like the 1970s when we spoke more about the death penalty, which has now been abolished in Greece and in many states, but not all. In Iran and in some US states, it is being executed, so it is a struggle that continues, though it was at the heart of 50 years ago. “
According to Mr. Dimopoulos, things in human rights go slowly, there are major violations of human rights related to war, freedom of expression and press. “We may talk about gender violence over the last decade, but if you see the campaignsfor example 1990, the issue was high on the agenda. I remember posters talking about it, like the Greek section, where “every three days, a woman falls victim to her staircase” and had to do with how these incidents were declared or not. “
Commenting on the current situation in human rights, the Director of the Greek Department of Amnesty International emphasized that we are going through a period, not exactly bursting but for use. More authoritarian practices from state authorities around the world. “There are energetic wars, genocide in Gaza that pass through the” fine “of publicity. We are seeing an attempt to deconstruct the system of international law and human rights protection, as made after the horror of the Second FP. And because the 50 -year message is that yesterday’s struggles are the rights of today, at a time when human rights are being halted, then we have to fight the most. “
Concerning the situation in Greece, he emphasized that it is important – with the gauze – the issues of gender -based violence, migration and the protection of peaceful protest, which is the medium we have to protect the rest of our rights, as he said.
At the inauguration of the exhibition, on October 10, at 9pm, it will take place and will take place and The Performance “Anamnesis” – the amnesty of the stature of humanity “ From the Sourliboom Artists Group (conception/ directed: Valentina Paraskevidou, text/ editing: Sotiris Gakos).
Also, on Friday, October 24, at 19:00, the 50th anniversary of the Greek section of Amnesty International will be presented at the same venue.
Posters were granted by international amnesty