Graphic designer 32-year-old beat nine other finalists. Stakic told, the idea of making this design (See Photo) gained after reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"In the opening, noted that human rights are the foundation created the world that free, fair and peaceful. I then combine the two symbols of universal design, a hand and a bird, to create something new."
Stakic himself did not believe a symbol like this can change the world. "But a symbol is a symbol that people can trust and people can change the world."
Initiator contest hoping this emblem can be widely accepted because it is generated from the online process involving 15,396 participants from 190 countries. The competition was started May 3, 2011, just three months, tens of thousands of design entry. Of that amount, a number of renowned judges sifted to 10 finalists.
German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, stated, "Success of this competition shows human rights is an important topic in all countries in the world. Many people obviously feel a universal symbol of human rights is needed. The void has now been filled," he said.
International jury for this competition, among others, five times winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar), Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh), Mikhail Gorbachev (Russia) and Jimmy Carter (United States). Also there is Roland Emmerich (director of the film 2012), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder), and a number of such foreign ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Singapore, and Uruguay.
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