Vital Voices Announces It Is Honoring Guatemala's First Female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz At Its Annual Global Leadership Awards Ceremony In June
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Vital Voices Global Partnership announced its first honoree for the 13th Annual Global Leadership Awards to be held on June 17th, 2014. In making the announcement, Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson said, "Each year we seek to honor women who are making a critical difference in their communities. We can think of no better person to honor with this year's Leadership in Public Life Award than Claudia Paz y Paz, Guatemala's first female Attorney General. Her work dismantling a system of legal impunity, defending human rights and effectively prosecuting Guatemala's most serious criminals is having significant impact in the region and around the world. We are thrilled to recognize her with this award."
The Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards honor and celebrate women leaders around the world who are the working daily to strengthen democracy, increase economic opportunity, and protect human rights. Every year since 2002, Vital Voices gathers at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to recognize women who are social entrepreneurs, political representatives, businesswomen, human rights defenders and civil society advocates.
Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading non-governmental organization that identifies, invests in and brings visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities. Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation. The Vital Voices Global Leadership Network includes more than 14,000 leaders representing 144 countries who have trained and mentored 500,000 additional women and girls in their communities.
Visit www.vitalvoices.org to learn more.
Reporters May Contact:
Margaux Bergen, Vital Voices, 202 333 1928
[email protected]
SOURCE Vital Voices Global Partnership
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