It was in February 2009 when Stéphane Hessel awarded the Peace Prize 29 of the United Nations Association, which was delivered in the Auditorium of Can Roig i Torres motivated us to Gramenet Imatge exposure Solidaria made human rights the past 10 had opened in March sistere Can.

Hessel with his 91 years, currently the only survivor of the team that wrote the declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed on December 10, 1948, in the speech he made in the act of the award presented in direct speech, energetic consistent defense of fundamental rights of the person and a denunciation of the causes of social inequalities and economic policies with a clarity of exposition, conviction and vitality, unusual in this age group. We caught and was the key to decide us to conduct the exhibition.

A person unfamiliar media has spent this year to be almost a mass phenomenon, especially in France, following the publication of his book indignant VOS. This book calls us all and especially the young, we did not stay indifferent, that because of the injustices and inequalities of our world have the capacity to be outraged and essential step to move to a complaint attitude, commitment and action. An action that must be peaceful, unifying, inspiring. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Luther King ... are the referents. Always keep in mind that in his youth, the enemies were very defined beat Hitler, Franco, Mussolini. Now in our Europe, in a welfare state that is in question, can we really say that in a democracy? How we are consciously or unconsciously alienated? "The power of money has never been so great, so insolent, selfish with everyone from his own servants to the highest echelons of the state" remarks in his book.

In the letter we sent manuscript dedication exposure as we said, "If he comes XXI century challenges are not the same as those of that time, the fundamental values ​​of the individual are always crucial" to end by stating that: "The exposure - Human Rights - help to know what the Declaration. "

Each of the 30 articles in the Declaration of Human Rights will correspond one or more photographs, some with impressive, strong, specially made in countries where human rights are far from compliance, others closer made in our environment. The photographers, Gabriel Brau, José Luis García, Juan Guerrero, Laura Guerrero, Jesus Jaime Mota, and Vincente Moreno Rovi Semper, authors of the photographs, with his unique vision have managed to reflect with sensitivity, aesthetic sense and poetic content and values the spirit of the great charter of human