From top: Huwaida Arraf, Maria LaHood, Patricia Isasa.
Photos: www.freepalestinecampaign.org,
www.c-span.org, www.frifagbevegelse.no
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Women Rising X:
International Changemakers - Human Rights Advocates
December 20, 2006
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Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program we profile three courageous human rights advocates.
Palestinian-American Huwaida Arraf founded an organization that monitors the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Maria LaHood is an American lawyer who takes on high profile human rights cases, like that of Maher Arrar, who was a victim of "extraordinary rendition" at the hands of the US government. Argentinian Patricia Isasa is an activist who is bringing to justice those who detained and tortured her in her own country, and is fighting against The School of the Americas.
This Women's Desk program is a special collaboration with the Women Rising Radio Project, Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.
Featuring:
Huwaida Arraf, founder, International Solidarity Movement (ISM); Maria LaHood, lead attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights; Patricia Isasa, activist and former torture victim.
Program Producer: Lynn Feinerman
Senior Producer: Tena Rubio
Guest Host: Sandina Robbins
Mixing Engineer: Antonio Ortiz
Intern: Alexis McCrimmon
For more information:
International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
www.palsolidarity.org
Center for Constitutional Rights
666 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, NY 10012
212-614-6464; Fax: 212-614-6499; info@ccr-ny.org
www.ccr-ny.org
School of Americas Watch
PO Box 4566
Washington, DC 20017
202-234-3440; Fax: 202-636-4505; info@soaw.org
www.soaw.org
Other helpful links:
American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad St., 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
212-549-2500
www.aclu.org
Amnesty International
5 Penn Plaza, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212-807-8400
www.amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
212-290-4700
www.hrw.org
Physicians for Human Rights
Two Arrow Street, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-301-4200; Fax 617-301-4250
www.phrusa.org
Rabbis for Human Rights
rehov harekhavim 9
jerusalem, israel 93462
+972.2.648.2757; Fax +972.2.678.3611; info@rhr.israel.net
rhr.israel.net
Survivors International
703 Market St. Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-546-2080
www.survivorsintl.org