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Photos from the 2002 Human Rights
Award Dinner


Board member Sigourney Weaver with honoree Dr. Sima Samar.




Asylum program staffer Jennifer Turner with former asylum client Beatrice Okum.




Asylum program director Eleanor Acer with former client and featured speaker Tong Yi, along with Martin Flaherty from Fordham Law School.



Dan Glickman is the former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton and the current Director of the Institute of Politics at the JFK School of Government at Harvard and Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights were featured speakers .

Board President Tom Bernstein talks with fellow board member and featured speaker Harold Koh . Harold Koh was the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton Administration and currently the Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School.

Board chairman Bill Zabel, executive director Mike Posner and honoree Dr. Sima Samar.




The honorees, presenters and speakers at the 2002 ceremony.




Board president Tom Bernstein and fellow board member and former 1998 honoree Li Lu.




Bill Zabel, Board Chairman.





Barbara Ibrahim, wife of then imprisoned honoree Saad Eddin Ibrahim with fellow honoree Dr. Sima Samar.

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