Amnesty International tuesday announced that Nelson Mandela will be awarded its most prestigious honour, the “Ambassador of Conscience” Award for 2006.
The Award will be presented to Mr. Mandela by the distinguished South African writer and Nobel Literature Laureate Ms. Nadine Gordimer in Nelson Mandela House in Johannesburg, South Africa on 1 November 2006.
– Today, we honour and pay tribute to the life and work of Nelson Mandela in the cause of freedom and justice in South Africa and around the world, said Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
– But we fully recognize that it is he in fact who has bestowed a great honour on Amnesty International by accepting this Award.
Amnesty International’s “Ambassador of Conscience” Award recognises exceptional individual leadership and witness in the fight to protect and promote human rights.
Nelson Mandela joins past winners of the distinguished human rights award — including U2, Vaclav Havel and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson — as global “Ambassadors of Conscience””
For further details of the Ambassador of Conscience Award please see www.artforamnesty.org
