Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner 2001: London

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Reaffirming Human Rights: Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner 2001
London

We will be holding the first Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner, London on Thursday evening, 18 October at the Natural History Museum in London.

The dinner will celebrate the work of four individuals who, through their personal triumphs and perseverance in speaking out for justice in their home countries of Chechnya, India, Jordan and Sierra Leone, have helped advance human rights and the need for international justice. The evening will feature a presentation by the four monitors followed by a full sit-down dinner in the Earth Galleries.

The monitors attending this year's Annual Dinner will be:

Dr. Khassan Baiev: a surgeon from Chechnya who operated on both Russians and Chechens during the conflict;
Martin Chhotubhal Macwan: the head of the Navsarjan Trust, an NGO in the western state of Gujarat, India dedicated to Dalit social justice;
Abdul Tejan-Cole: a human rights lawyer from Sierra Leone;
Representative from the National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate so-called "Crimes of Honour": an organisation to repeal article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which allows for lenient sentences for perpetrators of honour crimes.

Ticket prices for London Dinner:

For more information or to purchase tickets

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