Exeter Law School

POSTER COMPETITION

Posted by The Law School

16 November 2023

Open to all UG students

Note new deadline: Submit by 27 November at 4pm

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the 70th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, HRDF and ECIL are organising a poster competition open to UG students, with the results being announced on Wednesday 6 December.

For the poster you are asked to reflect on two themes/questions:

  • Have the promises and the vision which these documents encapsulate been kept? 
  • What have we learned since their adoption and/or entry into force?

There will also be an academic workshop open to colleagues and PGT students on Thursday 7 December.

For more information, including where to put your entry, the calls for posters and for abstracts see:  https://ele.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9957&section=13

2023 – A Year of Anniversaries Poster Competition. The Genocide Convention 75 years ago, on 9 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, more commonly known as the Genocide Convention. For the first time in history, the UNGA adopted a human rights treaty, and the crime of genocide was codified under international law. 'Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity', the Convention defines the crime of genocide as a series of acts 'committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such'. Adopted 'to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge', the Genocide Convention made the pledge to enforce the 'Never Again' slogan. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) The following day, on 10 December 1948, the UNGA adopted the UDHR, proclaiming the inherent dignity of every human person and the fundamental rights which we all possess, equally and universally. The rights enshrined within the UDHR are expressed as the ’foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world’, and the UDHR sets out ‘a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations’ to which ‘every individual and every organ of society … shall strive’. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 70 years ago, on 3 September 1953, the ECHR entered into force. The ECHR was the first regional human rights treaty with an unprecedented monitoring mechanism that enabled individuals to bring rights claims against states. The rights protected under the ECHR are primarily civil and political rights, and so do not capture the full range of rights within the UDHR. However, the protection afforded by the system is significant and the Court receives and examines thousands of applications every year. Call for Posters To mark these Anniversaries, the Human Rights and Democracy Forum and the Exeter Centre for International Law are organising a poster competition to reflect on two themes/questions: Have the promises and the vision which these documents encapsulate been kept? What have we learned since their adoption and/or entry into force? Posters may focus on one or more of the above-mentioned instruments and must commit to Exeter Law School’s values of respect, dignity, tolerance, and inclusivity. The posters will be presented on Wednesday 6 December from 12.30pm to 1.30pm in Streatham Court, LT C. The winner of the competition will be awarded a first prize of £50 and the two runners-ups will be awarded £25 each. In addition, the three competition winners will receive an award certificate. The winning poster will be displayed on the HRDF website scrolling banner as well as on ECIL website. Conditions The competition is open to all University of Exeter undergraduate Law students. All visual materials must have copyright clearance: the easiest way is to use materials available through creative commons. Posters need to be one A4 page in size, portrait or landscape format, colour or monochrome, and contain max. 75 words of text. They must be shareable in electronic format, i.e. a pdf file. Please indicate your name(s) on your poster; anonymous posters will be excluded from the competition. Posters must be uploaded on the ELE page for the IHRD Workshop and poster competition to the padlet on the ELE tile for the poster competition: https://ele.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9957&section=13 before 4pm (UK time) on Monday 20 November 2023. Please note that the use of the padlet is password protected. If you have any queries about the competition, please use the ELE Q&A forum: https://ele.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9957&section=13
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