Photography and New Media for Human Rights 

       New Media is everything from online video or music streaming services, email, blogs, social media sites and podcasts. New media is often found on the internet and has been growing in popularity since its inception. New media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, communicate, and bring awareness to certain issues that need public support and resources. It is a voluntary behavior that brings people together for a singular purpose, a common social goal.  

       In this blog, I will be utilizing photography in new media to bring on awareness on human rights. According to the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Right, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person…No one shall be held in slavery or servitude…Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression…No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment…Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion…Everyone has the right to education…(No) group or person (has) any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.”(UDHR) 

        These human rights are “standards that recognize and protect the dignity of all human beings. Human rights govern how individual human beings live in society and with each other, as well as their relationship with the State and the obligations that the State have towards them.”(UNICEF) Human rights are needed to protect and preserve every individual's humanity, to ensure that every individual can live a life of dignity and a life that is worthy of a human being.