Human Rights

An essential, definitive visual guide and history to the variety of human rights and protections — great for activists, rights defenders, and young readers who love visual learning.

With timelines, easy-to-follow graphics and bite-sized bits of info, this book explains it all: from workers' rights to the right to a clean environment, and the people who fought to protect those rights.

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Regardless of where we were born, how much we have, what we believe, our age, or the color of our skin, we all deserve to live with respect, justice, and freedom. There are many different kinds of human rights — civil rights, rights for workers, rights of children and LGBTQ+ people, the right to go to school and to a clean environment, the right to think freely and practice the religion of your choice.

Drawing on the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — one of the most important documents in the history of human rights — Herrero and Demano create a lively and vibrant visualization of how these shared rights came to be enshrined and what they entail. With graphic timelines, definitions of terms and laws, featured activists who made a difference throughout history, and examples of rights as they are practiced around the globe, Human Rights presents the story of how far we’ve come and maps out the challenges that await as we work to create a more equitable future for all.

Yayo Herrero is an anthropologist, social educator, agricultural technical engineer, lecturer and researcher in issues relating to social ecology and feminism. She has been a state coordinator of Ecologists in Action and has been an activist for decades in numerous social activities in defense of human rights, ecology, feminism and the social and solidarity economy. She runs the social justice nonprofit organization, Benéfico-Social Hogar del Empleado Foundation (FUHEM), coordinates the Complutense University of Madrid’s Centre for Environmental Studies and Information, and is a lecturer in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development at the UNESCO Chair at the National Distance Education University (UNED). Her research focuses on a critique of the capitalist development and production model as a threat to the planet and life, work which she combines with activism. Herrero regularly contributes to several critical and independent media, such as eldiario.es. She is the co-author of the illustrated book Canvi climàtic (Litera, 2019).

Translator Paul David Martin.....

Luis Demano is a teacher, cartoonist and graphic designer whose work has appeared in the media, on albums, posters, advertising, and in animation Demanos is also the co-director of the Master's Degree in Professional Illustration at the Barreira A+D Official Center for Higher Studies, in Valencia, Spain, where he currently resides. He is the illustrator of the books Human Rights and the Illustrated History of Rock, which has been translated into six languages.