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*** NO REPRODUCTION FEE *** DUBLIN : 26/5/2023 : Front Line Defenders announced the five winners of its top distinction, the 2023 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, at a special ceremony in Dublin this morning held in Dublin's EPIC - Irish Emigration Museum. Pictured (l-r) receiving the Front Line Defenders 2023 Human Rights Defender at Risk Award were Segundo Ordóñez, Ecuador, Jeany Rose Hayahay, Philippines, Hala Ahed, Jordan, Vita Volodovska (on behalf of Digital Security Lab Ukraine), Ukraine and Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk was established in 2005 to honour the work of HRDs who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others, often at great personal risk to themselves. Picture Conor McCabe Photography. MEDIA CONTACT : Conor Fortune, email cfortune@frontlinedefenders.org
Front Line Defenders, a Channel grantee partner, announced the five winners of the 2023 Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk on May 23, 2023 at a ceremony in Dublin (see video below).
The awardees included Olivier Bahemuke Ndoole of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Segundo Ordóñez of Ecuador, Jeany ‘Rose’ Hayahay from the Philippines, Hala Ahed from Jordan, and Digital Security Lab Ukraine. Olive Moore, the Interim Director of Front Line Defenders, congratulated the awardees stating that “this year’s laureates are a courageous and inspiring group of people who reflect the determination, dynamism and diversity of human rights defenders (HRDs) who are on the front lines of fighting for a more just world.”
The Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk shines an international spotlight on human rights defenders “who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others, often at great personal risk to themselves.” The award hopes to empower these human rights defenders and those they fight for, providing awardees with a cash prize, protection grant, and support from FLD on security and advocacy.
Photos of Award Winners and Their Work as Human Rights Defenders, Courtesy of FLD.
