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Gold Mercury Peace & Security Award 2006

H. E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of theRepublic of Liberia.

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Gold Mercury Humanitarian Aw ard 2006

Kerry Kennedy Founder of The Robert F.Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights andChairman of "Speak Truth to Power" programme.

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Gold Mercury Cooperation & Development Award 2006

CGIAR The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Washington DC, USA.

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Gold Mercury Corporate Governance Award2006

Xerox Corporation Connecticut, USA.

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Hernando de Soto President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD). Lima, Peru.

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Gold Mercury Health & Science Award 2006

Dr. Robert C. Gallo Director of the Institute of Human Virology. Baltimore, USA.

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Gold Mercury Environment Award 2006

Aldabra Foundat ion . Geneva, Switzerland &Mahe, Seychelles.



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Kerry Kennedy

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Mary Kerry Kennedy (known as Kerry) was born September 8, 1959, in Washington, D.C., the seventh of theeleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. She attended Brown University and Boston

College Law School. She married Andrew Cuomo, son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, on June9, 1990, in the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. They separated in 2003 and havesince divorced.

They have three children: Cara Ethel Kennedy Cuomo and Mariah Matilda Kennedy Cuomo, born January 11,1995, in Washington, D.C., and Michaela Andrea Kennedy Cuomo, born August 26, 1997, in Washington, D.C.

Kennedy is on the board of directors for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and founded the Robert F. KennedyMemorial Center for Human Rights (CHR). She led a delegation from the CHR to Liberia in July of 2004. Sheis also on the advisory board of The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at BrandeisUniversity.

Ms. Kennedy started working in the field of human rights in 1981 when she investigated abuses committed byU.S. immigration officials against refugees from El Salvador. Since then, her life has been devoted to thevindication of equal justice, to the promotion and protection of basic rights, and to the preservation of the ruleof law. She established the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in 1988 and she has worked on diverse human rights issues such as children’s rights, child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, and freedom of expression, ethnic violence, impunity, and the environment. She hasconcentrated specifically on women’s rights, exposing injustices and educating audiences about women’sissues, particularly honor killings, sexual slavery, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, sexual assault,abuse of prisoners, and more. She has led over 40 human rights delegations to over 30 countries. At a time of

diminished idealism and growing cynicism about public service, her life and lectures are testaments to thecommitment to the basic values of human rights. Kennedy is the author of Speak Truth to Power : HumanRights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which features interviews with human rights activists rangingfrom the famous - - Helen Prejean, Marian Wright Edelman, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, ArchbishopDesmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and Oscar Arias to name a few to lesser known stories of courage. Speak Truth, aglobal education initiative to aid the fight for international human rights, grew from her book exploring thequality of courage through the words of leading human rights defenders around the world to the moving and inspiring play by esteemed Chilean poet and Broadway playwright Ariel Dorfman, the stirring photographicexhibition by Pulitzer Prize-winner Eddie Adams, a PBS documentary film, an education packet, five publicservice announcements on national television, an award-winning website, www.speaktruthtopower.org and federal legislation which increased federal funding for the protection of human rights. The book has been

translated into Greek, Spanish and Italian.

Kennedy served a Executive Director and is now on the Board of Directors of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial,a non-profit organization that addresses the problems of social justice. She ran three programs: The NationalJuvenile Justice Project, which helped municipalities create more effective and less costly programs for dealingwith young offenders; The RFK Journalism and RFK Book Awards, known as the “poor people’s Pulitzers”,which recognize those authors who prod our conscience and expose the problems of the dispossessed; and theRFK Center for Human Rights, which she founded in 1988. Ms. Kennedy established the RFK Center for

Ms. Kennedy produced t he pr emi ere of t he pl ay at The Kennedy Cent er i n Washi ngt on, D. C. wher e J ackson Br owne and




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Human Rights to ensure the protection of rights codified under the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. TheCenter provides an on going base of support to leading human rights defenders around the world. The Center uncovers and publicizes abuses such as torture, disappearances, repression of free speech and child labor; urgesCongress and the U.S. administration to highlight human rights in foreign policy, supplies activists with theresources they need to advance their work and creates other programs to advance respect for human rights. Ms.Kennedy has appeared numerous times on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PBS as well as on networks in countriesaround the world, and her commentaries and articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The ChicagoSun-Times, L’Unita, The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, The New York Times, Pagina12, TV Guide and theYale Journal of International Law. As a special correspondent for the environmental magazine television program, “Network Earth”, she reported on human rights and the environment. She interviewed human rightsleaders for Voice of America. Ms. Kennedy is Chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council, and is a judge for the Reebok Human Rights Award. She serves on the boards of directors of the International Center forEthics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University, Human Rights First, Inter- Press Service ( Rome, Italy)the Bloody Sunday Trust ( Northern Ireland), The Alliance for the New Humanity and The China Information Network. She serves on the Gleitzman Foundation’s Special Board of Advisors for the Sakharov Award, and the Editorial Board of Advisors of the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review. She is on the Advisory Committeefor the International Campaign for Tibet, the Committee on the Administration of Justice of Northern Ireland,the Global Youth Action Network, Studies without Borders and several other organizations. She serves on the

leadership council of the Amnesty International Campaign to stop violence against women and on the AdvisoryBoard of the Albert Schweitzer Institute. Ms. Kennedy received high honors from President Lech Walesa of Poland for aiding the Solidarity movement. She has received awards from the Southern Christian LeadershipConference for leadership in abolishing the death penalty, and the American Jewish Congress of theMetropolitan Region, the Emerald Isle Immigration Society, and the Institute for the Italian Americanexperience three I’s award for outstanding efforts and achievements for human rights. She was named Womanof the Year 2001 by Save the Children, received the Crossing Boarders Award from the Feminist press in 2003,Humanitarian of the Year Award from the South Asian Media Awards Foundation, and the Prima Donna Awardfrom Montalcino Vineyards. Ms. Kennedy has served in numerous political campaigns, and she is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. Kerry Kennedy is a graduate of Brown University and BostonCollege Law School. She holds an honorary doctorate of laws from Le Moyne College and an honorary

doctorate of Human Letters from Bay Path College.

Kerry Kennedy was awarded the Gold Mercury Award (http://www.goldmercury.org/ceremony.php?y=2006-2005&ceremony/) for Humanitarian Action 2006 for herefforts in defending human rights activists.

See also

Kennedy family

External links

The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights(http://www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/chr/)Speak truth to power (http://www.speaktruth.org/)

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