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UN Watch's annual human rights prize is named after the esteemed U.S.
civil rights advocate, diplomat and United Nations delegate who founded
the watchdog NGO in 1993. UN Watch is best known for organizing the annual
Geneva Summit for Human Rights and
Democracy, a key gathering for dissidents, and for bringing victims
to testify
before the United Nations Human Rights Council, including from China, Cuba,
Egypt, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela.
Mr. Kasparov has been beaten and jailed by Russian authorities for daring
to challenge president Vladimir Putin. Click
here for the video of his beating
on August 17, 2012 for protesting the arrest of the Pussy Riot activist-musicians.
Mr. Kasparov has been a key voice on the international scene to promote
U.S. passage of the Magnitsky Act of sanctions against Russian officials
and to appeal for similar measures in other countries. He was listed by
Time Magazine as one
of the Top 100 people whose moral example is transforming the world.
"Russia's status in the world and at the UN entails responsibility,"
said Neuer. "Russia is in breach of several international agreements
to which it is a signatory, as well as of its own provisions concerning
political rights. Article 2 of Russia's constitution guarantees its citizens
'the recognition, observance and protection of human and civil rights and
freedoms.' In practice, these freedoms are being systematically violated."
Mr. Kasparov will receive the 2013 Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award in
Geneva on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at a gala dinner, attended by the diplomatic
community, marking UN Watch's 20th anniversary. The event will be held in
Geneva's historic Hotel des Bergues, site of the first assembly of the League
of Nations in 1920.
Morris B. Abram (1918-2000) worked closely with Rev. Martin Luther King,
winning key legal battles for the equal rights of African-Americans. Over
three decades, Abram was a leading figure at the UN Commission on Human
Rights and the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights.
Garry Kasparov was born in 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan. He came to international
fame as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985 at the age
of 22. He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of
matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov broke Bobby Fischer’s
rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until
2013.
In 2005, then in his 20th year as the world’s top-ranked player, Kasparov
retired from competitive chess to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy
movement. He founded the United Civil Front and organized the Marches of
Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin.
In 2012, Kasparov was elected to the Coordinating Council of the united
opposition movement. In the same year, he was named chairman of the New
York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel.
Garry and his wife Daria are active with the Kasparov Chess Foundation in
promoting the teaching of chess in education systems around the world. Now
in over 3500 US schools, the foundation recently launched centers in Europe
and Africa, with South America soon to come.
GENEVA, April 8 - One day after Russian President Vladimir Putin was criticized
during a visit to Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel for restricting non-governmental
organizations, the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch today announced
that its annual human rights award will be given to Garry Kasparov, one
of Russia's most prominent dissidents and democracy activists, and a former
world chess champion.
UN Watch is a Geneva-based human rights organization founded in 1993 to monitor UN compliance with the principles of its Charter. It is accredited as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and as an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information (DPI).
