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In our hands: human right as a way of life -- From Human Rights Cities – a personal view by Shulamith Koenig


Thu, 11/10/2007 - 2:00pm

Shulamith Koenig - is the recipient of the 2003 United Nations Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Human Rights.

She is the Founding President of PDHRE, the People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning –formerly known as- People’s Decade for Human Rights Education- which she had founded in 1988 with the goal of generating --in the words of Nelson Mandela --a new political culture based on human rights— to enable women and men alike to participate as equals in the decision that determine their lives…--people belonging in community in dignity with others…--people moving from charity to dignity.

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