2012 Voices for Justice Human Rights Watch Annual Dinners
Honoring those who speak out where there is silence

Each year Human Rights Watch celebrates human rights defenders from around the world who put their lives at risk to protect the rights and dignity of others.  Join us at the Voices for Justice Annual Dinners where we honor these courageous individuals who have received our highest tribute -- the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism – in recognition of their unwavering, fearless commitment to human rights.

This year’s Voices for Justice Annual Dinners are held in 16 cities worldwide: Amsterdam, Beirut, Chicago, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Toronto, and Zurich. We hope you will come and celebrate these remarkable individuals and support the important global work of Human Rights Watch.

Meet the 2012 Defenders

Defender    © 2001 Reuters Sihem Bensedrine, a Tunisian journalist and activist who heads the Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring and serves as a spokesperson for the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia
Defender    © 2011 Jennifer Strader Anis Hidayah, executive director of Migrant Care, a leading Indonesian organization working to protect the rights of millions of migrant workers
Defender    © 2011 Human Rights Watch

Abbé Benoît Kinalegu, head of the Catholic Church’s Peace and Justice Commission in northern Congo, who works to document and expose abuses by the Lord’s Resistance Army and rehabilitate its victims
Defender    © 2011 Jennifer Strader Farai Maguwu, director of the Center for Natural Resource Governance in eastern Zimbabwe and a leading voice against the abuses taking place in the Marange diamond fields
Defender    © 2011 Patricia Williams Consuelo Morales, director of Citizens in Support of Human Rights, based in Monterrey, which brings abuses in Mexico’s “war on drugs” to light

 

  

Learn more about the 2012 dinners and buy tickets online

New York November 1
Toronto November 5
London November 7
Zurich November 7
Chicago November 8
Santa Barbara November 11
Amsterdam November 12
Los Angeles November 12
Oslo November 12
Munich November 14
Silicon Valley November 14
Paris November 15
San Francisco November 15
Geneva November 20
Beirut Spring 2013
Tokyo Spring 2013

 

 
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