2011 Human Rights Award Dinner Photos

All photos by Michael Ian.

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  • 2011 Human Rights First Award honorees activists Basem Fathy of Egypt and Shehrbano Taseer of Pakistan.
  • Michael Posner founding Executive Director of Human Rights First and now Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (center), with Human Rights First’s President and CEO Elisa Massimino and Board Chair William D. Zabel.
  • Evening host Brian Williams, Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News.
  • Host Brian Williams interviews 2011 Human Rights First Award honoree and activist Shehrbano Taseer of Pakistan.
  • Academy Award-Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman presenting The Sidney Lumet Award for Integrity in Entertainment to Michelle and Robert King, co-creators of CBS’s The Good Wife.
  • The Good Wife’s Josh Charles (left) presented the 2011 Human Rights First Award to Egyptian activist Basem Fathy.
  • 2011 Human Rights Award honorees activists Shehrbano Taseer of Pakistan (left) and Basem Fathy of Egypt (right) with Human Rights First’s Elisa Massimino and William D. Zabel.
  • [From left] Michelle and Robert King—co-creators of CBS’s The Good Wife, with contemporary artist and Lumet Award designer Jenny Holzer, and Josh Charles, actor.
  • [From left] Robert King, Vice-chair of Human Rights First Tom Bernstein, Elisa Massimino, Michelle King, William D. Zabel, and Josh Charles.
  • Human Rights First president and CEO Elisa Massimino with Academy Award-Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  • Guests Alexi Ashe and Saturday Night Live’s Seth Myers.
  • The Good Wife’s Christine Baranski (left) and Archie Panjabi (right) pose with Rear Admiral Don Guter, USN (Ret.) president and dean of South Texas College of Law in Houston and his wife Pat.
  • Robert King, co-creator of CBS’s The Good Wife (left), with Human Rights First president and CEO Elisa Massimino (front) and The Good Wife actors Julianna Margulies and Josh Charles (back).
  • After-dinner music by Stephane Wrembel (right).