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Poster design competition 1. Goal The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) are pleased to announce this competition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the IACHR. The Fifth Meeting of Consultation of member States of the Organisation of American States (OAS), held in Santiago, Chile, in 1959, established the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, with a mandate primarily to promote the observance and protection of human rights and to serve the OAS as an advisory body in this area. IACHR Defending Human Rights This competition will have two categories: • Children 12 to 17 years old on August 30, 2009 (including those who turn • Young people between 18 and 23 years old on August 31, 2009 (including those who turn 23 on August 31, 2009) Only one (1) original work will be accepted per participant. Collective entries are eligible, but one person must be designated to be responsible for receiving correspondence from the IACHR and to receive the award, should the work be selected as the winner. IACHR Commissioners and their direct family members, and members of staff of the General Secretariat of the Organisation of American States and their direct family members are not eligible to enter this contest. Neither are eligible members of the IIHR General Assembly and their direct family members, nor IIHR employees and their direct family members. Member state representatives to the OAS, staff of member state Permanent Missions to the OAS, and their family members are also ineligible. Each entry must be submitted on Bristol board, fabric or cardboard. Entries on Bristol board or fabric must be sent in a cardboard tube or some other form of protection, and should be 100 cm high by 70 cm wide (39 1⁄4 inches high by 27 1⁄2 inches wide). Poster designs may use any medium, including: charcoal, crayon, cerite, tempera, oil, acrylic, ink, collage, photography, or be computer generated. Entries should not include any figure or trade mark identifying companies or institutions other than the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The title and the technique employed should be included on the reverse side of the poster, which should be forwarded along with a sealed envelope with the title on the outside. The following information should be included inside the envelope: a. For individual entries: b. For collective entries: 5. Copyright Posters that are entered will not be returned to the senders. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold the copyright for all works received, and may use them to mount exhibitions, publish books, or for any other purpose, entirely at its discretion. 6. Submission of projects and deadline for entries to be received The contestants assume all expenses involved in sending in their entries, which should be submitted to: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Poster designs must be sent in by August 31, 2009. Postmarked dates will be 7. Judges The panel of judges comprises three members of the IACHR, the Executive Secretary, two curators of the Art Museum of the Americas, two members of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and a representative of the OAS General Secretariat. The judges’ decision will be final and not subject to appeal. The judges will select 10 finalists for each category and one winner per category. For each category, the winner will be awarded a certificate of recognition plus US$500.00 (five hundred U.S. dollars), payable by an OAS check. If a group project is the winner, the check will be sent to the person identified on the envelope accompanying the work as the one in charge. No change of the person in charge will be accepted. A certificate of recognition will be awarded to the finalists, whose works will form part of an exhibition to be organised by the IACHR on a date and at a venue to be determined. The Commission will publish the names of the winners and finalists on its website.
2. Poster design slogan
3. Categories and participants
18 on August 30, 2009)
4. Rules
Full name of the creator of the work
Date and place of birth
Contact information (address, telephone number, and/or e-mail)
Full name of each member of the group involved in creating the work
Date and place of birth of each group member
Full name of the person appointed by the group to be in charge of communicating with the IACHR and to accept the prize money, if the work is a winner.
Contact information for the person in charge (address, telephone number, and/or e-
mail)
1889 F Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20006
U.S.A.
taken into account. No entries sent in past the deadline will be considered.
8. Prizes