{"id":128718,"date":"2021-04-20T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=20159"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:17:50","slug":"new-award-for-forgotten-heroes-of-the-international-human-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/20\/new-award-for-forgotten-heroes-of-the-international-human-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"New award for \u2018forgotten\u2019 heroes of the international human rights movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As can be seen from THF\u2019s\u00a0 Digest of Human Rights Laureates [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trueheroesfilms.org\/thedigest%5D\">https:\/\/www.trueheroesfilms.org\/thedigest]<\/a> there is a small number of important individuals which do not appear in the Digest for the simple reason that they did not get an award while they were still alive. One explanation is that these leaders of the early days operated in the time that awards were less numerous (most awards were after all created after 2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to rectify this a group of individuals has created a <strong>Life-time Human Rights Achievement Award<\/strong>, which is an honorary, posthumous award for individuals who have greatly contributed to the international protection of human rights defenders but have been \u2018forgotten\u2019 by other awards. Attributed in exceptional cases.<br><br>The first 6 laureates are: Werner Lottje, Niall MacDermot, Hansa Mehta, Bertha Lutz, Minerva Bernardino and Charles Malik. This selection is an indication of what the \u201c<strong>Ad Hoc Committee for recognition of forgotten human rights heroes<\/strong>\u201d considers lifetime achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/hrheroesrecognition.org\/\">https:\/\/hrheroesrecognition.org\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2021\/04\/20\/new-award-for-forgotten-heroes-of-the-international-human-rights-movement\/\">Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As can be seen from THF\u2019s\u00a0 Digest of Human Rights Laureates [https:\/\/www.trueheroesfilms.org\/thedigest] there is a small number of important individuals which do not appear in the Digest for the simple reason that they did not get an award while they were still alive. One explanation is that these leaders of the early days operated in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19684,1472,19685,19686,3117,19687,2740,1424,19688,19689,19690,19691,19692,1680,19693],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135324,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128718\/revisions\/135324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}