The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
On September 21, 1976, agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet detonated a car bomb that killed IPS colleagues Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean diplomat and director of the Institute's Transnational Institute, and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, an IPS development associate, in Washington, DC. Each year in October, the Institute for Policy Studies hosts the annual human rights award in the names of Letelier and Moffitt to honor these fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and the Americas.
The
35th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards Ceremony
October 12th, 2011
Domestic Award
Wisconsin Progressive Movement
International Award
Bethlehem, The Migrant's Shelter (Mexico)
About the Recipients
Domestic Awardee: The Wisconsin Progressive Movement
The Wisconsin Progressive Movement is standing up for working families and for a strong public sector. The protests of Wisconsin workers continue to challenge an unjust status quo and breathe new life into the progressive movement.
International Awardee: Bethlehem, The Migrant's Shelter (Mexico)
Bethlehem, The Migrant's Shelter (Mexico) works to protect migrants in Mexico from kidnapping, extortion, sexual abuse, and murder. As a voice for the human rights of migrants in transit, it has courageously challenged both organized crime and complicit public officials.
Selection Committee
- Fred Azcarate, AFL-CIO
- Marie Dennis, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies
- Joe Eldridge, Chaplain, American University
- Jill Gay, Activist
- Adam Isacson, Center for International Policy
- Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive
- Isabel Morel de Letelier
- E. Ethelbert Miller, Howard University
- Joy Olson, Washington Office on Latin America
- Manuel Perez-Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies
Artwork © Naul Ojeda