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Following the device „promote, document and defend Human Rights“, Human Rights International (HRI) works since 2002 in the areas of awareness raising, advice and the defense of indigent victims of human rights violations.

2011 HRI Human Rights Award

The HRI awards the prestigious 2011 prize to the Rwandan humanitarian association SEVOTA and its President Godelieve Mukasarasi.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Human Rights Declarations (adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948), on the 9th and 10th December 2011 HRI will award the Rwandan human rights association SEVOTA as well as its President (also founder) Godelieve Mukasarasi, acknowledging their exceptional efforts in the promotion of human rights, women and minors’ rights, especially after the tragic Genocide of 1994.
The 2011 HRI Human Rights Award will be handed over by Monika Hauser, gynecologist, founder of the association medica Mondiale e.V. and winner of the 2008 Alternative Nobel Prize.
The event will take place at EURAC (European Research Academy) in Bolzano, viale Druso/Drususallee 1.
Further information and detailed schedule will be communicated in the coming weeks.