This year’s Gruber Justice Prize is awarded to the Association for Civil Rights (ACRI) in Israel. The award will be received by Libby Lenkinski Friedlander, director of international relations for the organization, along with the representatives of four other social justice organizations. The awrd ceremony will be held at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. A total of $500,000 cash prize will be awarded to the social justice groups.
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, which was established in 1993, will present the award to ACRI for the outstanding work done by the group in promoting and defending the rights of vulnerable communities in Israel and the occupied territories.
This year will mark the conclusion of the Justice Prize awarded by the Gruber Foundation, as this will be the final prize. However, the purpose of the prize will continue at Yale as part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights. The main aspects of the program include Global Constitutionalism Seminar, the Gruber Distinguished Global Justice and Women’s Rights Lectures, and the Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowships.
Other prize recipients for this year include Barbara Arnwine of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She has been actively involved in defending and promoting civil rights and gender equity throughout the U.S.; Morris Dees, who has been working to promote racial equality, especially in the southern United States; the Center for Legal and Social Studies, for their unique work of documenting and litigating human rights violations under military dictatorship in Argentina; and the Kurdish Human Rights Project, for their commendable effort in protecting the civil and religious liberty of residents of Kurdish regions, including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
