Svetlana Gannushkina

Svetlana Gannushkina is human rights activist in Russia, who was reported to have been a contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. [1]

According to Amnesty International, she is a member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights under the President of Russia. [2] She is also a member of the council of Memorial, a society dedicated to remembrance of victims of Soviet repressions.

In 2006, she was awarded the Homo Homini Award for human rights activism by the Czech group People in Need.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
  2. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/human-rights-defender-russia-svetlana-alekseevna-gannushkina-20081209
  3. ^ "Previous Recipients of the Homo Homini Award". People in Need. http://www.clovekvtisni.cz/index2en.php?id=549. Retrieved 17 April 2011. 

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