The Ginetta Sagan Fund of AIUSA invites nominations for its 2011 Annual Award for the Human Rights of Women and Children. Amnesty International membership, organizations and individuals are invited to take part in nominating an outstanding woman for this coveted award. This is your opportunity to shed light on human rights abuses around the world and honor the women that promote human dignity.
For more than three decades, the late Ginetta Sagan, recipient of the 1996 Presidential Medal of Freedom, fought for the lives and rights of prisoners of conscience throughout the world. A tireless crusader and eternal optimist, Ginetta’s passionate dedication inspired generations of human rights advocates. In honor of her humanitarian achievements, Amnesty International USA created the Ginetta Sagan Fund in 1994, one of AIUSA’s first permanently endowed funds and the only fund that specifically addresses the needs of women and children. The Ginetta Sagan Fund ensures the continuation in perpetuity of Ginetta’s human rights legacy and brings worldwide attention to the abuses perpetrated on women and children.
About the Ginetta Sagan Fund
The Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes individual accomplishment, but also serves as a beacon of hope to women everywhere who are fighting for human rights.
Award Highlights
The award recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk.
It enhances the recipient’s ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient’s capacity to continue her work, by bringing a new level of international attention to her accomplishments and the obstacles she faces.
The award brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis, region or issue for which the recipient works.
The Ginetta Sagan Fund emphasizes that more human rights work must be done by and for women. The $10,000 award is announced and presented each year at the Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International USA. Read about past recipients.
Last date for submitting the nomination is October 1, 2011
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