Monument to Human Rights

This monument, influenced by Egyptian mastaba architecture, is a blend of various elements:

• A square freestone structure with an octagonal interior, illuminated from above. Its outer walls feature engraved texts, reliefs, and 12 stones each bearing a bronze seal of the European Community's member states in 1989.
• Two ornate bronze obelisks, intricately decorated with symbols and texts, including the 1789 French Declaration of Rights.
• Three statues: one of a toga-clad man holding documents, another urging viewers to read the obelisk texts, and a third of a woman with a child donning a newspaper hat, symbolizing the events of 1989.
• The southwest façade, facing the Champs de Mars, showcases a symbolic triangle, a text commemorating the 1789 Declaration, and a sundial.
• The northeast façade, closest to rue de Belgrade, features a bronze door flanked by columns, adorned with reliefs and historical revolutionary imagery, and an oculus above depicting an Ouroboros.
• Carvings of the names and seals of 1989's European Community capitals are displayed on the remaining facades: Lisboa, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, London, Dublin on one side, and Athens, Rome, Luxembourg, Bonn, Amsterdam, Copenhagen on the other.
• The structure rests on a raised platform with bronze fire pots at each corner.