Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders
The Alkarama Award is granted annually to a person or organization that has, according to the Organization, “significantly contributed to human rights promotion and protection in the Arab world”.
The award ceremony takes place in Geneva on the occasion of Human Rights Day (10 December).
Former award winners include:
- Shireen Issawi, a well-known lawyer and Human Rights Defender for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2014)
In the absence of Shireen still detained in Israel, the Award will be handed to her parents, Layla and Tarek Issawi, by Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, a former member of the Swiss National Council and President of Women of Peace Around the World. Confirmed speakers include: Dr Norman Finkelstein, an American political scientist; writer Haneen Zoabi, the First Israeli Arab woman elected to the Knesset; and Dr. Richard Falk, a former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1967. The Master of Ceremony is: Guy Mettan, Executive Director of the Swiss Press Club and Deputy of the Grand Council of Geneva
- Abdulelah Haider Shaye (Yemen, 2013),
A few days before the ceremony, he published a post on his Facebook page advocating terrorism and challenging the “Jewish gangs controlling America”.
- Saud Al Hashimi & Dr Mohamed Al Roken (Saudi Arabia & United Arab Emirates, 2012),
- Aida Seif Al Dawla and Saïd bin Zair (Egypt and Saudi Arabia, 2011),
- Haithem Al Maleh (Syria, 2010),
- Ali Yahia Abdennour (Algeria, 2009), a lawyer who defended Ali Belhajj.
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