Amnesty International posters – in pictures

Posted by Rahmi Lale | Filed under Music

Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best.
From Guardian

Amnesty International, 1995 (Israel)
A poster for the Israeli branch by graphic designer Lemel Yossi


The Real Face of Turkey, 1980 (UK)
Poster for the planned Amnesty International Turkey campaign in 1980, which never took place due to the military coup of September 12, 1980. The poster, aimed at potential tourists to the country, wanted to increase awareness of human rights violations in Turkey

Comments (1) | April 4th, 2011

One Response to “Amnesty International posters – in pictures”

  1. Phillip Ellington Says:
    February 20, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    Hi, The ‘real face’ poster was designed by Windhorse Associates in or around 1992 and was used as part of their campaign against human rights abuse in Turkey. I was creative director on the project and was stand in for a real Turkish policeman in the photo, (the moustache is fake!).

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