Monday, December 11, 2006

Human Rights Day

I realize yesterday held another important event, apart from the Nobel celebrations. It was also International Human Rights Day, which of course deserves attention.

In this context, the recent prizes posthumously awarded to Martin Adler and Anna Politkovskaja by the Swedish section of Reporters without Borders also warrants a mention. The motivation for the shared prize between the two deceased journalists, who also happened to have been born the same year, is how they "with curiosity, tenacity and courage reported from places where freedom of expression is at its most threatened, and paid for this with their lives".

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