The Institute of Human Rights of the UV dedicates Human Rights Week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • University Culture Service
  • December 12nd, 2023
 
An Ukrainian child playing. Exhibition by Benito Pajares at the Faculty of Law.
An Ukrainian child playing. Exhibition by Benito Pajares at the Faculty of Law.

The Institute of Human Rights of the UV (IDHUV) dedicates Human Rights Week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a wide programme of free-entrance cultural activities at the Faculty of Law from Tuesday, 12 to Friday, 15 December.

On Tuesday, 12 at 10:45, the opening session will be led by the poet Mario Obrero, winner of the LOEWE Poetry Prize 2020 for Young Creation. That same morning at 12:00, in addition to various panel discussions, the photojournalist Benito Pajares will accompany a group of around 60 students from IES Isabel de Villena and IES Ramón Llull to the exhibition Destino: Vida (Destiny: life), an exhibition installed in the Aulario Norte of the Tarongers Campus and which captures in about 40 photographs the drama of the invasion of Ukraine - with the exodus ofthousands of people, especially women with children - through the camera of Pajares who travelled to Przemysl on the border of Poland with a group of volunteers from the NGO Juntos por la Vida (Together for Life). The exhibition, which has travelled to different campuses through the Culture on Campus programme to bring culture closer to students, can be visited until 2 February 2024.

The second day of this anniversary will begin on Wednesday, 13 December with a lecture by Begoña Lasagabaster, Director of the Division of Gender Equality of the Office of the Director-General of UNESCO. In the afternoon, among the scheduled activities will be the presence of the actor Pepe Viyuela, who will present his documentary 'Un viaje hacia nosotros’ (A travel to ourselves), which shows the reality of the Spanish refugees of 1939 as a result of research into his family's past: his grandfather Gervasio.

The third day of the week, Thursday 14, will be devoted to analysing the evolution of the main current conflicts from the perspective of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through different panel discussions.

The closing session, on Friday 15 at 10:30, will be given by the Director of the Institute of Human Rights of the UV, Fernando Flores, and full-time university professor of Human Geography of the UV, Joan Romero.

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