Human rights posters on display in Chester Fritz Library

In honor of International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), the students in professor Mosher’s French 340 course, “Business French” in partnership with the Center For Human Rights and Genocide Studies, have created a series of human rights posters that are currently being displayed in the Chester Fritz Library. The fourteen human rights posters focus on the intersection of commerce and culture in order to draw attention to the economically charged human rights violations that continue to afflict the African continent and Haiti in the post-colonial era.

Poster topics focus on a variety of human rights violations throughout the French-speaking world including blood diamonds, human trafficking, genocide, conflict minerals, crimes against women in children, and the devastation in Haiti following the deadly earthquake in January of 2010.

The posters will be on display on the second floor of the Chester Fritz Library, opposite the main reading room, through Jan. 31 2011.

— Sarah Mosher, Languages, 777-0489, sarah.mosher@und.edu.