support life after torture
Role: CAMPAIGN Creative Direction | event production | Project manager
Support Life After Torture, 26 June, is the UN global campaign in support of victims of torture and their communities. On this day groups and organisations across the world who work every day to support victims of torture and ill-treatment, call for an end to the horrific practice of torture and for full rehabilitation for all victims. Some organise a diverse range of events and activities including seminars, exhibitions, theatre and dance performances, sport matches and marches on the street. Others carry out advocacy campaigns for their national governments to ratify the UN Convention against Torture or to adopt legislation prohibiting torture and guaranteeing the right to rehabilitation. Or by highlighting the specific ways in which torture takes place in their country and the urgent need for implementation of existing legislation to deliver justice and rehabilitation services to survivors. This date is an opportunity for all those who seek a world without torture to speak out.
In an efforts to unify, visibilise and strengthen the voices of the anti-torture movement, my role was to develop a common visual identity and campaign materials with a cohesive message, which can be use as creative advocacy tools on 26 June and throughout the year.
Support life after torture 2016, Mexico city.
the campaign kit
In collaboration with a design agency, I lead the team that created a free online campaign kit that includes a range of materials designed to support anyone interested in organising a successful campaign on the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The kit includes a logopack, posters, factsheets in various languages, among other tools and guidance.
Find the complete campaign kit here.
cultural interventions
As part of IRCT General Assembly and Scientific Symposium “Delivering on the Promise of the Right to Rehabilitation”, I lead the planning and implementation of the Cultural Program for ca. 400 participants from all over the world who gathered for one week during Dec. 2016 in Mexico City.
In collaboration with various local and international artists, we assembled various live artistic and cultural performances, including a film screening of the Oscar nominated film “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppenheimer, followed by a panel discussion together with the audience.
All these intervantions were key elements during the Symposium, which captured voices of support, both on the streets of Mexico City and at the event itself together with the global movement. On the closing ceremony, the Symposium Rapporteur, David Curry, highlighted the potentialities of the visual image and the arts and culture to support meaningful knowledge-sharing processes, to unify voices, to generate hope and to strengthen the movement.