PHA-Exchange> 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award - Call for Nominatios

[George Lessard]

2005 Reebok Human Rights Award
Subject: 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award

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 contributions 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 advocate violence or belong to an 
organization that advocates violence, and they 
must be working on an issue that directly relates 
to the United Nations' "Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights." Women and men of all races, ethnic 
groups,nationalities, 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 recipients. 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 Jordan, 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 cultural, attitudes that persecute 
women.


Application materials are provided below. All 
interested individuals 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 at reebok.com>

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

CONTACT US
Reebok Human Rights Foundation
EMAIL US: <mailto:rhrfoundation at reebok.com>
WRITE TO US:
Associate Director
Reebok Human Rights Foundation
Reebok International Ltd.
1895 J.W. Foster Blvd.
Canton, MA 02021


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