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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. Oktober 2007 / Time Line October 13, 2007
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10/13/2007
Ghanaian Receives International Human Rights Honor
Artist for Human Rights Presented its International Human
Rights Hero Awards for 2007 last Tuesday night at the Celebrity
Center International in Hollywood, Los Angeles USA.
Recipients of this year's award include Sammy Jacobs Abbey,
Director of the International Centre for Conflict and Human Rights
Analysis (ICCHRA), Jack Harley, the Founder and Executive
Director of the Human Rights Action Center, and Martha
Montoya, Internationally renowned cartoonist.
Sammy Jacobs Abbey is the Director of the International Center for
Conflict and Human Rights Analysis (ICCHRA) in Ghana. His 2007
International Human Rights Hero Award was in recognition for
successfully implementing Human Rights Education and leadership
program in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, at the
United Nations, and all over the world, providing hope to thousands
of youth and potential leaders.
Abbey became involved in mediation and conflict resolution issues
at the age of 18. In addition to conducting dozens of peacekeeping
missions for the United Nations, in 2005 he was made an honoring
Peace Ambassador by the Apeadu Peace Center at a ceremony witnessed
by top UN officials.
Sammy Jacobs Abbey became involved with Youth for Human Rights
International in 2005 at its human trafficking conference held
in the Cape Coast Castle, a relic of the African slave trade. In
2006, the United Nations asked him to give a series of human rights
lectures to students from around the world at the UN headquarters
in Geneva.
The program was so successful that Abbey is now conducting an
on-line human rights teaching program for the benefit of students
around the globe. For the last two years, he has directed the Youth
for Human Rights International's education and leadership programs
to students in Africa, and is the Sub-Sahara Africa Director for
Youth for Human Rights International.
Accepting the award, Sammy Jacobs Abbey recounted his motivation by
the experiences he had while partnering with the United Nations in
a very high torn war prone areas in the world.
"Taking inspiration from Timothy Bowles, Director, International
Development for Youth for Human Rights International, I was
motivated to restore hope among deprived children and bring smiles
to their faces", Sammy Jacobs Abbey said.
Within the last two years, Sammy Abbey has traveled to over
forty-eight (48) countries -- to virtually every continent -- to
teach and make the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human
Rights a reality.
In his endeavor to make the United Nations Declaration on Human
Rights a reality, he has fruitfully had discussions with government
officials, top UN officials and Human Rights institutions across
the African continent to consider Human Rights Education as an
important aspect of curriculums development.
Abbey, who is also an advisory member of the Commission on Human
Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Human Rights NGO Forum, a
coalition of Human Rights institutions and individuals promoting
Human Rights Education in Ghana, dedicated his award to all people
who one way or other working and helping to bring smiles to the
faces of children.
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