- 3 Sep 2008
- [International Secretariat]
- Region: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
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Art for Amnesty today announced that Peter Gabriel is the recipient of the Amnesty International ‘Ambassador of Conscience Award’ 2008. The presentation to Peter Gabriel will take place during a ceremony at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, on September 10th, 2008.
Peter Gabriel is a long time campaigner for human rights around the world, having first worked with Amnesty during the Conspiracy of Hope Tour in 1986 and then on the ground breaking Human Rights Now! Tour in 1988. Gabriel went on to found Witness, a video community campaigning for Human Rights and more recently The Elders a private alliance of senior global figures to launch diplomatic assaults on the globe's most intractable problems. "Peter has been at the vanguard of the struggle for human rights and justice around the world for nearly a quarter of a century" said Bill Shipsey of Art for Amnesty, “all of his wonderful work, not just with Amnesty, could justify his selection as an Ambassador of Conscience”.
The Ambassador of Conscience Award, now in its sixth year, recognizes exceptional individual leadership and witness in the fight to protect and promote human rights. The award, inspired by a poem written for Amnesty International by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, aims to promote the work of Amnesty International by association with the life, work and example of its 'Ambassadors' who have done so much to inspire and uplift. Former recipients include: Nelson Mandela, U2, Mary Robinson and Vaclav Havel.
The Ambassador of Conscience Award will be presented to Peter Gabriel by The Edge (guitarist with U2). A previous recipient of the award, The Edge (along with band mate Bono) has been credited by Peter Gabriel with recruiting him to Amnesty International.
The event will also mark the launch of Amnesty International's global Small Places Tour 2008 the organisation’s most ambitious global music and human rights project since the Human Rights Now!
Tour in 1988. Details of the tour and the artists participating will be announced following the award presentation to Peter Gabriel.
For more information contact:
In the Americas: Jim Cardillo jim@artforamnesty.org +19082961930
In the Rest of the World: Jessica Harley jessica@artforamnesty.org +353860446000
For more information on the ‘Small Places Tour’ go to www.myspace.com/smallplacestour
For more information on the ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ Award go to www.artforamnesty.org/aoc
3 September 2008
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