Human Rights explainers

Attention-grabbing visualizations, posters and infographics to make human rights accessible to all.

Client

EachOther

Project TypeExplainers Data journalism

A closeup of a timeline of UK human rights. This section shows 1995 to 2010 and includes the 1998 Human Rights Act. Illustrations are sat next to some of the events.

Human rights is a complicated issue. Too complicated for many, in fact. And there’s an avalanche of (mis)information.

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Explore 14 Human Rights Myths

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That’s why human rights barrister Adam Wagner founded EachOther. This UK charity came to us to create a suite of attention-grabbing visualizations, posters and infographics that made human rights accessible to everyone.

To engage an audience that could easily be overwhelmed we sought compelling stories backed by rich interactive content, illustrated in a bright, punchy, modern style that would seem warm and inviting.

The timeline ‘Everything you need to know about human rights’ covered acts, conventions and charters from the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 to the legalisation of same sex marriage in 2014.

We presented the ‘50 human rights cases that have transformed Britain’ as interactive bubbles, showing which moments have defined British rights. And the full stories were linked for anyone wanting a deeper read.

In a series of folder-shaped ‘case-files’, we offered the reality behind 14 headlines that led to media-myths about human rights in the UK.

And we created 16 posters that gave readers an at-a-glance guide to each human right.

In the end, we got our rights right – the explainers won the Plain English Communicator Award in 2015.

A screenshot from the Human Rights explainers project. It shows a timeline of 50 of the human rights cases that transformed Britain. Each case is represented by a colourful bubble where the colour represents the category of right and the size reflects the case's influence.

A series of illustrated panels explaining key UK human rights and dispelling myths around different rights.

A timeline of the history of human rights conventions and acts relevant to the UK

A series of colourfully illustrated panels outlining the rights offered under the European Convention on Human Rights.

An illustrated and colourful poster that includes data visualizatioons and copy explaining everyone's right to life and its protection under law.

An illustrated and colourful poster that includes data visualizatioons and copy explaining everyone's right to free and fair elections.

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