{"id":474377,"date":"2022-01-18T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:15:02","slug":"vincent-raj-arokiasamy-wins-raoul-wallenberg-prize-of-the-council-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/18\/vincent-raj-arokiasamy-wins-raoul-wallenberg-prize-of-the-council-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Raj Arokiasamy wins Raoul Wallenberg Prize of the Council of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vincent Raj Arokiasamy<\/strong>, founder of the organisation \u201cEvidence\u201d in India, has been awarded the Council of Europe\u2019s\u00a0Raoul Wallenberg Prize\u00a0for his outstanding determination and persistence in bringing meaningful change to the lives of the Dalits<\/strong>, historically known as \u201cuntouchables\u201d. For more on this award and its laureates, see: https:\/\/www.trueheroesfilms.org\/thedigest\/awards\/730A3159-B93A-4782-830F-3C697B0EC7A0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVincent Raj Arokiasamy (better known as \u201cEvidence\u201d Kathir) has risked his life to help an exceptionally disadvantaged part of the Indian population whose plight is often ignored by national and international communities. In defending human rights with incredible commitment and resilience, his courageous actions for the so-called \u201cuntouchables\u201d fully reflect the spirit and values of the Raoul Wallenberg prize\u201d, said Marija Pej\u010dinovi\u0107 Buri\u0107, the\u00a0Secretary General<\/a>\u00a0of the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincent Raj Arokiasamy has demonstrated enormous courage and taken grave risks regarding his own and his family\u2019s lives. He has rescued some 25,000 victims in 3,000 incidents of human rights violations. As a result, he has to live apart from his family to protect them. He has devoted his life to the cause of promoting justice for Dalits and others whose voices are rarely heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday 19 January at 12h30 CET in a hybrid format. The event will be live streamed<\/a>, and speakers include the Secretary General, the Chair of the Jury and the Laureate. A screening of J\u00f3zsef Sipos\u2019s documentary on the life of Raoul Wallenberg \u201cThe Lost European<\/a>\u201d will follow the ceremony. The documentary can be streamed online, free of charge, until 23 January. The film streaming is made available with the support of the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 January marks the anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg\u2019s arrest in Budapest in 1945. The Swedish diplomat used his status to save tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. His actions show that one person’s courage and ability can really make a difference. Starting in 2014, at the initiative of the Swedish Government and the Hungarian Parliament, the Council of Europe has created the Raoul Wallenberg Prize to keep the memory of his achievements alive. The Prize, worth \u20ac10,000, is awarded every two years in recognition of extraordinary humanitarian achievements by a single individual, a group of individuals or an organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/human-rights-rule-of-law\/-\/defender-of-disadvantaged-population-of-untouchables-in-india-receives-raoul-wallenberg-prize<\/a><\/p>\n\n

This post was originally published on Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vincent Raj Arokiasamy, founder of the organisation \u201cEvidence\u201d in India, has been awarded the Council of Europe\u2019s\u00a0Raoul Wallenberg Prize\u00a0for his outstanding determination and persistence in bringing meaningful change to the lives of the Dalits, historically known as \u201cuntouchables\u201d. For more on this award and its laureates, see: https:\/\/www.trueheroesfilms.org\/thedigest\/awards\/730A3159-B93A-4782-830F-3C697B0EC7A0 \u201cVincent Raj Arokiasamy (better known as \u201cEvidence\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472,36051,3117,40947,2740,1424,452,40948,27620,40949],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474377"}],"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=474377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474378,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474377\/revisions\/474378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}