Human Rights Defenders from Sri Lanka and Burundi share 2007 Martin Ennals Award (Amnesty International)
Yahoo May 3rd, 2007Amnesty International, as one of the members on the Jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA), announces that the 2007 Laureates are:Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham Sritharan, co-founders of the University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR), Jaffna, have monitored and documented in regular reports the human rights abuses committed by the Sri Lanka Government as well as the …
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