GHRC’s 2013 Human Rights Defenders Award Presented to UDEFEGUA

GHRC is proud to present the 2013 Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defenders Award to the Guatemalan Human Rights Defenders Unit (UDEFEGUA). The award was formally presented by GHRC on November 14, 2013 to Claudia Samayoa, coordinator for UDEFEGUA, who accepted the award on behalf of her organization.

Highlights from the award can be seen below:

 For more information about the award, as well as to read the complete transcriptions of introductory comments by GHRC Executive Director Kelsey Alford Jones and the keynote speech by Claudia Samayoa, click here.