SOLIDAR Silver Rose Award 2013
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The SOLIDAR Silver Rose Awards were launched in 2000 to celebrate individuals and organisations whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world.
The Awards are presented each year as a key civil society event in the European Parliament in Brussels.
Winners are sometimes well-known; others are simply ordinary people leading extraordinary lives, reaching out to the most vulnerable groups in their societies, advocating for their rights, campaigning for their needs, and providing essential services such as soup kitchens, housing, children’s holidays and literacy classes. As SOLIDAR member organisations work both in Europe and around the world, examples of worthy recipients are not difficult to identify.
Previous award winners include Morgan Tsvangirai, former opposition leader in Zimbabwe; Aminatou Haidar, Western Sahara human rights defender; Labour Education Foundation in Pakistan and Robert Badinter from France.
This year the award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 18:30 – 20:00 pm (followed by a reception), European Parliament Room A3G3 – Rue Wiertz 60 – 1047 Brussels.