The Ceremony of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on 2 October 2012 at 6 p.m. at the Victoria Hall, Geneva. The ceremony will be followed by a reception at 7h15 p.m.
The Laureate will be announced and awarded by Ms. Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the presence of Ms. Micheline Calmy Rey, newly-appointed Chair of the Martin Ennals Foundation,
Register online for the ceremony: http://www.martinennalsaward.org/ <http://www.martinennalsaward.org/>
The three nominees for the 2012 award are: Venerable Luon Sovath, Cambodian monk, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian lawyer and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR). They all courageously stand for the rights of other despite continuous harassment and threats. The nominees were carefully selected by ten human rights organizations which make up the Martin Ennals Award Jury: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, the International Federation for Human Rights, the World Organisation Against Torture, Frontline, the International Commission of Jurists, German Diakonie, the International Service for Human Rights and HURIDOCS.
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
September 3, 2012 at 11:21
Hans,
Any chance of doing a webinar? That way – if I am late for the ceremony I can catch it on the web!
RODNEY LEWIS
Tel: 02 9979 1009
Mob: 0412 661 346
Email: rodlew@ozemail.com.au
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September 3, 2012 at 11:31
Dear Rodney, for sure the whole ceremony will be ‘broadcast’ (streamed) on our website and others, while a summary will appear the next day. Are you telling us that Australia is too far away to hope over?
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October 2, 2012 at 17:08
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