The Foundation for Justice and the Valencian Council of Bar Associations have joined forces to announce the 2019 CVCA and FxJ Human Rights Award, which aims to recognize a history of defending Human Rights and defending Justice as a value, aspiration or commitment .
After the signing of the collaboration agreement between both institutions held yesterday, the deadline for submitting candidatures opens and will end on September 30, at 11:59:59 p.m. The 2019 CVCA and FxJ Human Rights Award consists of the accrediting Image and Diploma and a financial award that amounts to €12,500. The release and delivery of prizes will take place in the month of November.
The CVCA and FxJ Human Rights Award continues the Foundation for Justice Award, which was awarded for the first time in 1995 to Adolfo Suárez, and which was awarded in XV successive editions to people and entities such as the Tribunal de las Aguas de the Vega of Valencia; the Association of Victims of Terrorism; the Association for the Search for Missing Children (El Salvador); Professor Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh); Ms. Bogaletch Gebre (Ethiopia); Father Vicente Berenguer (Mozambique); Dr. Pedro Cavadas (Valencia); Missionaries of Charity (India); the Jesuit Refugee Service (Rome); MAIDES Foundation (Valencia); Richard Frechette, director of Our Little Brothers in Haiti; the criminal lawyer Julián Carlos Ríos Martín; the social entrepreneur Omar Islam Ali, for his intense work in defense of the rights of the population of the island of Lamu, in Kenya, and, in its latest edition, to Maite Echarte and José Palazón, founders of the Asociación Pro Derechos de la Childhood (PRODEIN).