Focus on Pillar of Shame and analyze the Other Pillars of Shame.
Other Pillars have been erected in the following locations:Ostiense Air Terminal, Rome, Italy, 1996, during the FAO Summit, depicting the deaths caused worldwide by hunger due to the uneven distribution of the world's resources.
Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico in 1999, to mark the site of the December 1997 massacre of 45 members of the civil society group Las Abejas in Acteal.
Brasilia, Brazil in 2000 in homage to the victims of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre which occurred in 1996. This was moved to Belém, the capital of Pará, the federal state where the massacre occurred.
A fifth Pillar of Shame was planned in Berlin, Germany, in homage to the victims of the Nazi regime. Due to various problems, the artist had to cancel the project.A replica of the Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong was displayed on the forecourt of the Axel Springer Building in Berlin for one month, in response to the removal of the statue in Hong Kong.A pile of over 16,000 shoes, each pair representing a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, is placed in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Sunday 11 July 2010. The shoes were collected to make The Pillar of Shame by German activist Phillip Ruch's monument to Srebrenica.
Mexico Berlin FAO Rome Pará Las Abejas Brasilia Brandenburg Gate Germany Ostiense Italy victims of the Nazi regime Eldorado dos Carajás massacre Acteal Belém December 1997 massacre of 45 members Axel Springer Hong Kong Chiapas Brazil massacre Srebrenica massacre