Welcome to the year 2015! I'm excited about what this year holds for us. In the last days of 2014, there were great recaps of the progress made globally on human rights and gender quality, most notably documented by UNWOMEN. I am now even more optimistic about 2015!

To mark the New Year, I'm launching my Visualize Human Rights series with the image below.

Each image in the series will include a quote or summary about one of the human rights that we all share, regardless of where we live on this small planet. By focusing on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the UN adopted on 10 December 1948, rather than on any country's Constitution, I want to emphasize our similarities rather than our differences.

May your 2015 be filled with peace and joy, love and light. ~d