[hr-education-na] Reebok Human Rights Award 2006

Reebok Human Rights Awards Program

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 80 young activists from 36 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 $50,000grant 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.

All interested individuals are encouraged to make nominations no later
than May 31, 2005. Recipients will be selected by December 1, 2005.

For more information, visit www.reebok.com/humanrights or e-mail
<rhraward@reebok.com>.



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