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The organization was established by Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub in 2008, to bring global attention to human rights violations in Darfur and beyond, while providing resources to assist in putting an end to mass atrocities around the world.
Bill Browder, the British-American financier, multimillionaire and Putin’s #1 enemy, who created and championed the Magnitsky Sanctions (also known as the Magnitsky Act), legislation that holds individual human rights abusers accountable. Amal Clooney, a British-Lebanese barrister, who specializes in international law and human rights. She is ...
[10] [11] Clooney conceived of and, with John Prendergast—human rights activist, co-founder of the Enough Project, and Strategic Advisor for Not on Our Watch Project—initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), after an October 2010 trip to South Sudan. SSP aims to monitor armed activity for signs of renewed civil war between Sudan and ...
Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:03am EDT (Reuters) - A London law firm confirmed the worst-kept secret in show business on Monday by sending congratulations to one of its lawyers and Hollywood leading man ...
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, established by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker George Clooney, announced the a new leadership team Tuesday that the ...
Human rights activist, trade unionist Steven Goldstein: 1962 United States: gay rights advocate, political activist Chee Soon Juan: 1962 Singapore: politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights activist Manasi Pradhan: 1962 India: women's rights activist, founder of Honour for Women National Campaign: Céline Narmadji: 1964 Chad
John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist as well as an author. He is the co-founder of The Sentry, [6] an investigative and policy organization that seeks to disable multinational predatory networks that benefit from violent conflict, repression, and kleptocracy.
The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — was awarded Thursday to environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian ...