Media Advisory: Lantos Foundation to Award Human Rights Prize to Bill Browder at Washington Ceremony
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --On September 27, 2019 at 10:30 am at the Russell Senate Office Building's Kennedy Caucus Room in Washington, DC, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice will award its annual Lantos Human Rights Prize to Bill Browder, the driving force behind the Magnitsky Sanctions which are the most consequential enforcement mechanism of the modern human rights movement.
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- WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --On September 27, 2019 at 10:30 am at the Russell Senate Office Building's Kennedy Caucus Room in Washington, DC, the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice will award its annual Lantos Human Rights Prize to Bill Browder, the driving force behind the Magnitsky Sanctions which are the most consequential enforcement mechanism of the modern human rights movement.
- Bill Browder, for whom Magnitsky had worked, vowed to dedicate himself to seeking justice for Sergei and this crusade has made him a global human rights leader.
- First passed by the US Congress in 2012, the Magnitsky Act (later the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act), authorized sanctions of government officials implicated in serious human rights abuses.
- What: Presentation of Lantos Human Rights Prize to human rights champion and father of the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder
Where: The Russell Senate Office Building's Kennedy Caucus Room in Washington, DC