The Monument to Human Rights was built by Mariano González Beltrán on behalf of the regional government to commemorate the centenary of La Verdad. Mariano González Beltrán, born in 1948 in the Javalí Nuevo district of Murcia, is one of the most important contemporary regional artists with the greatest national and international influence on the national artistic scene. Mariano González Beltrán’s professional career has been marked by several milestones in recent years, including two of the most impressive and ambitious monumental complexes ever created by an artist from the region: the Monument to Human Rights, located at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and the sculpture of the same name in the Plaza de Santo Domingo in Murcia. González Beltrán is a sculptor who makes the region visible far beyond its borders. He has made many works of him that are distributed all over the world and can be found in some of the best art galleries, especially in the United States.
One of his most recent works is the sculpture 'Murcia to Salzillo'. A work in the Plaza San Agustín in Murcia, in honor of the Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo, in honor of his three hundredth birthday last year. He also made an Icarus for the town of Aguilas, a symbol of the carnival, which is located on the Paseo del Puerto in this coastal town.