Honoring human rights defenders
Ludmilla Alexeeva and Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam
Honorary Chair
Thomas R. Pickering |
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Dinner Chairs
Michael Lacovara
Philip A. Lacovara Sybil Shainwald |
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Dinner Co-Chairs
Andi and Tom A. Bernstein
Deborah Miller and William D. Zabel |

Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam of Sudan
Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam is the Chair of the Sudan Social Development Organization, an organization that monitors human rights abuses in Darfur, Sudan and reports on the Sudanese government’s role in the slaughter and carnage there. In an attempt to silence Dr. Mudawi, the Sudanese authorities have jailed him three times in the past 18 months – at times in solitary confinement – without access to a lawyer, his family or medical attention. While Dr. Mudawi is currently out of jail continuing his human rights work, the charges against him – including espionage, which carries a possible death sentence – have not been dropped.
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Ludmilla Alexeeva
of Russia
Ludmilla Alexeeva, the Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, is the doyenne of Russia's human rights community. Thirty years ago, she was one of the original Soviet-era dissidents who spoke out against repression. Today, she is not afraid to raise her voice in the renewed fight for rights in Russia, including criticizing policies on hate crimes as well as the war in Chechnya, and is a mentor to the new generation of dissidents. Alexeeva published the seminal book Soviet Dissent in 1985. She also served as President of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights – an umbrella group of human rights organizations from 38 countries –- from 1999 to 2004.
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Honorary Chair
Thomas R. Pickering |
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Chairs
Michael Lacovara
Philip A. Lacovara
Sybil Shainwald |
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Co-Chairs
Andi and Tom A. Bernstein
Deborah Miller and William D. Zabel |
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Host Committee Chairs
Gail Furman
Virginia and Robert Joffe |
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Host Committee
Elsie and Bernie Aidinoff
Kelly and Jay Sugarman
James E. Brumm
Lynda M. Clarizio
Deborah and Craig Cogut
Betsy and Alan D. Cohn
Mitchell and Monica Dolin
Donald F. Donovan
and Jennifer Lake
A. Whitney Ellsworth
Edward P. Evans
Leslie Gimbel and Marc Kusnetz
John J. Gibbons
Karen Goodheart
Kerry Kennedy
Helen & Martin Kimmel
Steven J. Kolleeny
Mathilde Krim
Jo Backer Laird
Joann and Robert Todd Lang
Kenneth Lapatine
Steven S. Lash
Mark Lawrence-Apfelbaum
Jill L. Rosenberg
Philip H. Rudolph
Steven H. Schulman
Steven R. Shapiro
Judith E. Siegel-Baum
John S. Siffert
Harold Snyder
Beryl Snyder
James M. Stillwaggon
Trish and George A. Vradenburg
Sigourney Weaver
Basil P. Zirinis, III |
Dinner Committee
Mig Boyle
Matthew Dontzin
and Ginger Harris
Helen and Peter Haje
Michelle Ores
Llewellyn Wells
Lynn Witkowski |