Women's Human Rights Activities Award Call for Nominations.

The Fourth
Women’s Human Rights Activities Award
(Yayori Award) 2008
http://www.wfphr.org/yayori/English/top.html

Call for Nominations:2008YAYORI AWARD

Nomination Guidelines:

The Yayori Award
The Yayori Award focuses on women activists, journalists, and artists (individuals or groups) who work at the grassroots level with socially marginalized peoples in order to create a 21st century free from war and discrimination against women. We will select an individual or a group from the Asian region and offer a prize amount of 500,000 yen.

For winners of the Yayori Award from overseas, the Women’s Fund for Peace and Human Rights will cover only transportation and accommodation expenses to attend the presentation ceremony in Tokyo.

The Yayori Journalist Award
The Yayori Journalist Award focuses on women journalists and artists (individuals or groups) who vividly describe and transmit the situation of women in the world with a gender perspective. Any genres of expression such as films, writings or printed material will be considered, but nominees must submit the works that show their achievement. The awardees will be presented with an award certificate and 500,000 yen. In the case that there are multiple awardees, the prize amount will be divided among them.

Nomination
Individuals and groups with nominees in mind are encouraged to submit recommendations for any and all appropriate candidates through the submission of a nomination form and all applicable references. Self-nomination will be accepted only for the Yayori Journalist Award. The reference material that is submitted will not be returned.
The form shall be submitted in English for the Yayori Award, and in Japanese for the Yayori Journalist Award.
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What is the Yayori Award?

The Women’s Fund for Peace and Human Rights, which was authorized as an NPO in 2003, focuses on the global promotion of women’s human rights and peace affecting the past, present, and future.
Our main activities include managing the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace and carrying out the Women’s Human Rights Activities Award (the Yayori Award). We would like to utilize the Yayori Award as an opportunity to encourage people to follow in Yayori’s passionate and courageous activism with women throughout Asia. Please join us.

For the Women’s Human Rights Activities Award, there are two sections: the Yayori Award and the Yayori Journalist Award.

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