REFUSING TO BE SILENCED 2018 and the presentation of the
ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA AWARD 2017
WOW FESTIVAL – Royal Festival Hall- London
Saturday 10 March 3-4pm 2018
Join us on Saturday 10th March (3pm-4pm) in the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, where we honour the recipients of the 2017 Anna Politkovskaya Award – Gulalai Ismail and Gauri Lankesh, and pay special tribute to the brave Rohingya survivor Jamalida Begum.
Presentation of the Award:
- Jude Kelly – Artistic Director of the Southbank centre and Founder of the WOW festival – introductory words
- Elena Kudimova – Former journalist and Anna Politkovskaya’s sister – to give the award
Panel:
- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC – Distinguished lawyer, human rights advocate, Labour member of the House of Lords – Chair
- Gulalai Ismail (Pakistan) – Pashtun human rights activist, co founder of Aware Girls and the Youth Peace network and 2017 Anna Politkovskaya Award winner
- Emma Hopkins, OBE – British Ambassador to Bulgaria, formerly leading the UK Government Initiative on Prevention of Sexual Violence in Conflict
- Mariana Katzarova – International human rights advocate and activist, Founder, RAW in WAR and the Anna Politkovskaya Award
- Leila Alikerami – International Iranian human rights lawyer and winner of 2009 Anna Politkovskya Award