Welcome,

Here at Art for Human Rights & Tolerance we have put together a game... and you — the artist, entertainment executive, patron of the arts — are invited to play!

Whatever your talent, be it music, filmmaking, painting, drawing, sculpting, dance; whatever connections in the art community you may have; whatever fundraising and patron activities you can bring to the table, we invite you to participate in the creation and promotion of works based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The game and dream of AHRT is to be a uniting force between

1. Artists and members of the entertainment industry and any other type of artists and the members of their art industries

and

2. Foundations, art patrons, corporations, prosperous individuals, government groups, human rights sponsors, etc.

and

3. A Promise to the World public events the world over which consist of concerts, film festivals and art festivals with the exclusive goal of making the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations a PEOPLES DOCUMENT and not just an historical promise made by nations many years ago (which as one can plainly see when one looks at the planet today, is an unfulfilled promise in many parts of the world for billions of people).

International singer/songwriter and AHRT Founder, Andrik, wrote the song A Promise to the World—a musical story of the Declaration and a powerful plea to help make it a reality by teaching it to all peoples of the world.

This powerful ode to human rights is the torch song of the AHRT movement and the defining artistic message of every concert.

There is really only one document today on which most all governments, religions and people now agree. In our present world situation, where a new war of cultures threatens the planet, that document is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

AHRT is an urgent call: First, to its participants and members, to defend the Universal Declaration and make this Promise a reality. Second, to all members of the human race, to do the same. Because, without human rights practiced as a code of honour by all human beings, there will simply be no worthwhile civilization left to speak of.

This web site is being promoted to individuals like yourself--being part of a select group of artists, managers, producers, AHRT patrons , potential patrons--with the initial purpose of finding out what would be needed and wanted for you to participate in the AHRT game. In otherwords, we are asking for your views on what you think should be done and how you would be willing to play in this vital movement.

AHRT is an idea whose time has come. Uniting the men of good will, the power players, the creative spirits of earth in this effort could very well mean the most effective action ever taken to enable the civlized forces of this planet to win. Victory by the insane with their destructive forces is no longer an option.

AHRT, however, is meant to be a co-creation. The dream is innately in all of our hearts... a better world, without war, brutality and crime, a world that can offer certainty and understanding to our future generations. Of all of the causes an artist might lend his or her talents to support, the cause for Human Rights is a cause that literally affects every man, woman and child on this planet. We think our dreams are your dreams, too.

As the song A Promise to the World expresses:

Wouldn't you like a world of freedom?
Wouldn't you like a world of peace?
It's not so hard if we all together
Follow the dream.
Follow the dream.

Please e-mail us with your thoughts and views on the above, and let the Art for Human Rights & Tolerance game begin...

(pictured above: Program cover and center pages of the first "A Promise to the World" Concert, presented in Stockholm, Sweden, April 2002.)