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Everyday Rights: Right v Reality Illustrations, by Edith Pritchett

Two illustrations side by side, the left one showing a family secure in a house as our right to social security dictates, versus how it really is with a person at a meeting with children struggling to get support.

Overview

This resource includes a series of informative posters by the artist Edith Pritchett that visualise the difference between the reality of everyday rights in the UK, versus what our rights require them to be.

Resource details

Publication date

Resource types

Poster, Resource pack

Issues

Everyday rights, Social security, Workers' rights, Right to housing, Right to health, Children's rights

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What is included?

This pack includes illustrations about the 7 topics in three different formats:

  • A3 Poster: One large page including all illustrations. This is ideal for use in a classroom.
  • A5 Postcards: Each human right scenario is visualised on 7 separate pages.
  • Portraits: All 'realities' illustrations, provided separately with text underneath them (1080x1350 dimensions) [Zip Format]

What are the posters about?

The posters cover seven aspects of Everyday Rights, as protected by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Thes include:

  • Right to home
  • Right to health
  • Right to education
  • Right to food
  • Right to social security
  • Right to work & workers' rights
  • Support for family

In all the images, an ideal rights-respecting scenario is shown, and contrasted by the illustratation of how this really plays out in the UK for many people.

All posters are artfully crafted for Amnesty International UK by the cartoonist, Edith Pritchett.

You can find more of their work here: https://www.instagram.com/edithcartoonist/

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