Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

On Sunday 14 August Amnesty International started its big meeting (ICM) in Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands. AI is ‘celebrating’ its 50th anniversary and the list of interveners on the first day illustrates the continued importance of this unique, large, membership-based human rights movement. In addition to the new Secretarty-General Salil Shetty, there were messages from Aung San Suu Kyi (by video), Shirin Ebadi, and Kasha Nabagesera, the 2011 Laureate of the Martin Ennals Award. For a short video summary of the first day go to: http://amnestyicm.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/highlights-from-day-one/

This entry was posted on August 16, 2011 at 17:50 and is filed under AI, Amnesty international, human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

Tags: AI, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kasha, MEA, Shirin Ebadi