Ink big: 30 people to get tattoo of one letter of human rights declaration

International art project will visit Manchester, where 30 people will be tattooed with one letter of 1948 UN document

Thirty people in Manchester will have one letter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights tattooed on them as part of an international art project arriving in the UK for the first time.

The project intends to tattoo the 1948 document on to the skins of 6,773 people, one letter at a time. The tattoos are 1cm squared, and people aged between 18 and 30 in the UK have been invited to submit applications to participate.