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Our friend, Kerry
Kennedy Cuomo, daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has
led more than forty human rights delegations to over than thirty
countries. Kerry established the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in 1987 to ensure the protection of rights codified under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. She has worked on diverse human rights issues such as child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, the environment, and women's rights. Kerry serves as Chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council and serves on boards or advisory committees for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, The Bloody Sunday Trust, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, the Gleitsman Foundation, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (Northern Ireland), and the International Campaign for Tibet, among others. Kerry Kennedy Cuomo is married to Andrew Cuomo and they have three girls, Cara, Maria, and Michaela. She is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. Eddie Adams has won the Pulitzer Prize and is the recipient of more than 500 international, national and local awards and is one of the most decorated and published photographers in America, today. His photos have been on the covers of hundreds of international publications. In Vietnam he went on more than 150 missions. In 1968 he photographed the indelible photo of the Saigon police chief shooting a Vietcong prisoner at point-blank range. For this photo he received the Pulitzer Prize. In 1977 his photographs of the boat people escaping Vietnam contributed to the U.S. Congress's decision to admit 200,000 Vietnamese to America. SPEAK
TRUTH TO POWER HUMAN
RIGHTS DEFENDERS WHO ARE CHANGING OUR WORLD By KERRY KENNEDY CUOMO KERRY KENNEDY CUOMO has published a powerful, moving and inspiring book on human rights defenders around the world -- the Martin Luther Kings of
their countries. The book is published by Crown Publishers/Random House (ISBN 0-8129-3062-2) and the
photographs are by EDDIE ADAMS. See http://www.speaktruthtopower.org/
"You cannot kill an idea, you cannot imprison freedom. This book is a tribute to the human spirit and proof of the capacity of one person - President Nelson Mandela SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
highlights some 50 human rights defenders, including the following: Disarmament Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sánchez "War, and the
preparation for war, are the two greatest
obstacles to human progress. The poor of the world are
crying out for schools and doctors, not
guns and generals."
Torture Guatemala/United States Dianna Ortiz "To this day, I can
smell the decomposing of bodies, disposed of in an open pit.
I can hear the piercing screams of other people being tortured.
I can see the blood
gushing out of the woman's body." Reconciliation South Africa Desmond Tutu "We have a God who
doesn't say, 'Ah…Got you! No. God says, 'Get up.' And God dusts us off and
God says, 'Try again.'" Police Brutality United States Van Jones "This guy is beaten,
he's kicked, he's stomped, he's pepper-sprayed, gagged (because they
didn't want him bleeding on them), and then left him in a
cell. Well, that's the sort
of stuff your expecting in Guatemala, but it
happened just fifteen or twenty minutes from here." Human Rights and
Reconciliation Argentina Juan Méndez "Is it morally
defensible, after twenty years of searching, that individuals still
cannot find their relatives, when there are people
walking around who know the location of the bodies?" Human Rights and
Self-Determination Gaza Raja Sourani "The world may think
that peace is on the way here, but the reality on the
ground is very different… never before has the
overall human rights situation deteriorated as dramatically." The Powerless Romania/United States Elie Wiesel "What I want, what
I've hoped for all my life, is that my past should not
become your children's future." Free Expression Czech Republic Vaclav Havel "You don't want to
become involved with the dirt that is around you and one day, all of a sudden you wake
up and realize that you are a dissident, and that you are a human
rights activist."
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