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Human Rights Now! Tour 1988.
Artists Involved
Tracy Chapman
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Sting
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Peter Gabriel
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Bruce Springsteen
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Youssou N?Dour
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In 1988, the Human Rights Now! Tour was organized to celebrate the achievements of the Human Rights movement and to introduce the idea of basic Human Rights protection to millions of people worldwide through the power of the media. Hundreds of thousands of people filled stadiums and crowed into field for concerts from South America to Eastern Europe and from Africa to Asia.
The musicians, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N'Dour, joined together in order to spread the Human Rights word across 35,000 miles. They travelled around the world, starting in London and finishing in Buenos Aires, performing in first and third world countries, and generated a great deal of interest and revenue for Amnesty International.
The universality of the Declaration of Human Rights was expressed by touring the world, playing nineteen countries in just six weeks. The Human Rights Now! Tour was not a caravan for charity. It was a campaign for freedom.
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