Declaration of Human Duties

75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

25 Years of the Nobel Prize for Literature to José Saramago

«So let us, common citizens, take the word and the initiative. With the same vehemence and force with which we claim our rights, let us also claim the duty of our duties. Maybe the world can start to become a little better.»

José Saramago

Photographs by
Gervasio Sánchez

Children in a mobile library.
Kabul, Afghanistan, 2019

A mother with her baby in a refugee camp hospital.
Kukës, Albania, 1999

Child playing with water.
Budapest, Hungary, 2014

Drawings of refugee children.
Slavonski Brod, Croatia, 2015

Alia and her mother Sofia, victim of a landmine.
Massaca, Mozambique, 2007

Dance session.
Tahen, Cambodia, 2008

Special education centre.
Boujdour, Western Sahara, 2016

Saharawi girls from the Holidays in Peace programme.
Zaragoza, Spain, 2016

Hawa, 13 years old. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2001

Children receiving humanitarian aid. Nadezhdivka, Ukraine, 2022

A girl in a centre for victims of Hurricane Mitch.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1998

Guatemalan women with their children. Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 2018

A Saharawi boy during his stay with a Spanish family.
Zaragoza, Spain, 2016

Students in a gym session at a UN school. Gaza, Palestine, 2013

Rescue of Syrian women, children and babies in the Mediterranean.
Libyan coast, 2017

Three children throw themselves into a lake at the temples of Angkor.
Siem Riep, Cambodia, 1996

«This same schizophrenic humanity that has the capacity to send instruments to a planet to study the composition of its rocks can with indifference note the deaths of million of people from starvation»

José Saramago