"WE'RE all human" is the message the Ministry of Culture has joined forces with the British Council to try to get across.
Freedom and equality are the focus of an event which opened on Wednesday at the Euro-Bulgarian Culture Institute as part of a global campaign to raise awareness of human rights.
The idea of the exhibition is to provoke new thinking about human rights.
It is constructed in two sections - books and posters.
The books were originally collected by the British Council to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998.
The poster section focuses particularly on women's rights and includes a 'No' sign in a Japanese girl's hands - aimed at reducing sexual harassment on public transport - which has been used in a poster campaign in the UK and in an international women's day rally against violence in Cape Town, South Africa.
Each panel of posters highlights an area where women's rights have been violated.
The concept of human rights can be traced back many years, through various cultures. The way in which lobbying for human rights occurs today has been framed by the international community's response to atrocities committed during the Second World War.
A universal declaration was signed by 48 nations in 1948, setting standards in human rights. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," it declared.
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," reads the seventh article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
Freedom and equality are the focus of an event which opened on Wednesday at the Euro-Bulgarian Culture Institute as part of a global campaign to raise awareness of human rights.
The idea of the exhibition is to provoke new thinking about human rights.
It is constructed in two sections - books and posters.
The books were originally collected by the British Council to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998.
The poster section focuses particularly on women's rights and includes a 'No' sign in a Japanese girl's hands - aimed at reducing sexual harassment on public transport - which has been used in a poster campaign in the UK and in an international women's day rally against violence in Cape Town, South Africa.
Each panel of posters highlights an area where women's rights have been violated.
The concept of human rights can be traced back many years, through various cultures. The way in which lobbying for human rights occurs today has been framed by the international community's response to atrocities committed during the Second World War.
A universal declaration was signed by 48 nations in 1948, setting standards in human rights. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," it declared.
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," reads the seventh article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
