She was a refugee, a Hazara woman and therefore part of the most persecuted minority in Afghanistan. Her husband went missing and never returned. In a country ravaged by more than three decades of war, Taliban rule and violation of women's rights, Sima Samar became a doctor, Afghanistan's first Minister of Women's Affairs and one of the country's most prominent human rights advocates.
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58-year-old Dr. Denis Mukwege is a gynecological surgeon in Bukavu, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He treats women who have been gang-raped or suffered other forms of sexual violence.
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"I want a society free of human trafficking," says Anuradha Koirala, the founder of Maiti Nepal. This is a shelter and home for Nepali girls and women who are victims of domestic violence, trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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It has been 65 years since India — the largest democracy in the world — attained independence.
Yet, justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people. Money and muscle power, together with political string-pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless ‘have-nots’, especially the Dalits (untouchables), ravaged by poverty and illiteracy.
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38-year-old Syrian journalist and founder of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression is still being held by the Syrian authorities. Calls from international human rights organizations for his immediate release go unheeded. Darwish and his 13 employees were taken into custody on February 16 by Syrian security forces.
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On Thursday night, security officials of the Syrian regime stormed the offices of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression in Damascus. They arrested its founder and director, Mazen Darwish, along with all his staff at the center. This action has caused great dismay at the Roland Berger Foundation, which was able to announce the news on Friday afternoon.
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His Excellency President of the Federal Republic of Germany; dear Roland Berger, the founder of the Foundation; ladies and gentlemen: The fact that I cannot be with you today is an indicator of the fact that despotism does not deprive us only of our freedom, but also of any possibility of joy or happiness.
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German President Christian Wulff opens the 1st Berlin Human Dignity Forum and presents the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award to the 2011 winners: Ms. Radhia Nasraoui, Tunisia; the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information founded by Mr. Gamal Eid, Egypt; and Mr. Mazen Darwish, Syria
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Kann ein Preis die Leute helfen? Eine Frage die nicht nur auf der ersten Menschenwürde Forum diskutiert wurde, sondern auch von die Aktivisten auf Tahrir Platz.
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We are sitting here to honour three activists who worked under very difficult conditions to help their people, and they are still working. "Human Dignity is a human right", but what happened in the last days in Egypt shows us that we are far away from this right, and also what happens since months in Syria.
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