[afro-nets] 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award - Call for Nominations

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From: "George Lessard" <media@web.net>

2005 Reebok Human Rights Award - Call for Nominations
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The Reebok Human Rights Award Program seeks nominations of young
human rights activists. Members of the international community
of human rights and non-governmental organizations are urged to
nominate young men and women to honor for their courage and con-
tributions to further human rights. The Reebok Human Rights
Award was established in 1988, and has since then, provided 76
young activists from 35 countries support and encouragement at a
critical time in their advocacy work. The award, which seeks to
shine a positive, international light on the awardees and to
support their work in human rights, provides recipients with a
$50,000 grant from the Reebok Human Rights Foundation for the
human rights organization of their choice. Human rights and non-
governmental organizations are urged to nominate young men and
women to receive the award.

Candidates must be 30 years of age or younger. They cannot advo-
cate violence or belong to an organization that advocates vio-
lence, and they must be working on an issue that directly re-
lates to the United Nations' "Universal Declaration of Human
Rights." Women and men of all races, ethnic groups, nationali-
ties, and religious backgrounds are eligible.

Past Reebok award recipients have been recognized for their work
on such issues as: fighting for Native American land rights;
protesting human rights abuses in Tibet; battling racial bias in
the death penalty in the United States; protecting children in
Zambia from physical and sexual abuse; monitoring human rights
abuses in Nigeria; and combating sex trafficking in South Asia.
The award has had remarkable impact on the work of past recipi-
ents. For example, when Rana Husseini received her Reebok Human
Rights Award in 1998 for her work in exposing "honor killings"
in Jordan, the media exposure became intense, not only in Jor-
dan, but internationally. This ensured that the silence around
this practice, in which women are murdered by family members for
suspected immoral behaviour", was broken for good. Rana has
since that time, been a leading voice to change entrenched cul-
tural, attitudes that persecute women.

Application materials are provided below. All interested indi-
viduals are encouraged to make nominations no later than May 31,
2004. Recipients will be selected by December 1, 2004. For more
information, visit:
http://www.reebok.com/humanrights
http://www.reebok.com/x/us/humanRights/text-only/awards/


CONTACT:
Reebok Human Rights Award Program
mailto:rhraward@reebok.com

WRITE TO US:
Director Reebok Human Rights Award Program
Reebok International Ltd.
1895 J.W. Foster Blvd.
Canton, MA 02021, USA

CONTACT:
Reebok Human Rights Foundation
mailto:rhrfoundation@reebok.com

WRITE TO US:
Associate Director Reebok Human Rights Foundation
Reebok International Ltd. 1895
J.W. Foster Blvd.
Canton, MA 02021, USA