Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations

Most of the different daily posts that appear on this blog are organized into so-called “blog series”. For example, there’s a series called iconic images of human rights violations: an iconic image of human rights violations is something very powerful: it can symbolize a certain human catastrophe, and fix it in the human mind; it keeps alive the memory of the event, and educates people about human rights, more than history or story-telling can ever do (icon: “an important and enduring symbol”). More human rights images here.

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Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (1): Tienanmen
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (2): Self-Immolation of Buddhist Monk in Vietnam
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (3): Kim Phuc, Napalm Girl
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (4): Guantanamo
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (5): Halabja Poison Gas Attack
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (6): Starving Boy in Uganda
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (7): Genocide in Rwanda
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (8): Auschwitz-Birkenau
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (9): Hiroshima
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (10): Dalai Lama Escapes to India
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (11): The Falling Man
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (12): The Little Rock Nine
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (13): The Berlin Wall
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (14): Beheading in Iraq
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (15): The Treatment of Roma Immigrants in Italy
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (16): Bhopal Disaster
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (17): Soviet Flag raised above the Reichstag
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (18): Racial Segregation
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (19): I Have A Dream
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (20): Belgian Congo
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (21): Biafra Famine
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (22): Abu Ghraib
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (23): Taliban Execution
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (24): The Unknown Victim
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (25): Slavery
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (26): The End of Colonialism
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (27): Equal Political Rights for Women
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (28): School Desegregation in the U.S.
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (29): Doctor Josef Mengele’s Twins
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (30): The Bombing of Dresden
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (31): Kristallnacht
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (32): Book Burning in Nazi Germany
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (33): London Bombings
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (34): Rosa Parks
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (35): The Great Depression
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (36): Neda, Victim of Government Crackdown in Iran
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (37): Muslim Prisoners in a Serbian Detention Camp
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (38): German Civilians forced by the US Army to Visit Buchenwald
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (39): Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (40): A Suffragette’s Suicide
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (41): The Beating of Guillermo Ford
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (42): The Last Jew of Vinnitsa
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (43): Black Power Salute at the Olympics
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (44): Chinese Baby Victim of Japanese Bombing
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (45): Child Labor in the U.S.
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (46): Ruth Snyder’s Execution at Sing Sing
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (47): Genocide in Rwanda, the Machete Pile
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (48): The Conflict in the Middle East
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (49): Sudanese Girl Dying of Hunger as a Vulture Patiently Waits
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (50): The Lynching of Will Brown During the Omaha Race Riot of 1919
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (51): Palestinian Girl Buried Under Rubble During the Gaza War
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (52): Gerri Santoro’s Fatal Abortion
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (53): Last Public Execution in the US
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (54): Oklahoma Bombing
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (55): Famine in Bihar
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (56): Food Theft in Sudan
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (57): Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (58): Child Dying in Warsaw Ghetto
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (59): World’s Youngest Mother
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (60): Refugees in Kosovo
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (61): Osama Bin Laden Gloats Over 9-11
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (62): Madonna of Bentalha
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (63): Beheading in Saudi Arabia
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (64): Heads Claimed by the Guillotine
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (65): The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (66): Hans Conrad Schumann’s Leap for Freedom
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (67): The Killing Fields
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (68): But Without the Violations
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (69): The Birmingham Protests of 1963
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (70): “No More Police Brutality”
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (71): “Troubles” in Northern Ireland
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (72): Dorothy Counts and School Desegregation