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The Ginetta Sagan Fund

Call for Nominations
for the 2009 GINETTA SAGAN AWARD
FOR WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
Amnesty International USA
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1ST



"Ginetta Sagan's name is synonymous with the fight for human rights around the world. She represents to all the triumph of the human spirit over tyranny."
                                                                                   – Bill Clinton

2008 Recipient of Amnesty International’s Ginetta Sagan Award
for Women’s and Children’s Rights: Betty Makoni
Unless we start challenging the systems that are currently in existence and come up with an activist development organization that supports and helps young girls to develop, there is going to be continuous gender imbalance in our society.”
– Betty Makoni at the Global Philanthropy Forum, June 2003

Betty Makoni
© Marcel Molle
Betty Makoni is one of Africa’s most important new voices for gender justice. Since 1999, Ms. Makoni has been building the Girl Child Network (GCN), a loose network of organization that trains girls to succeed in school, thrive in the home and society and resist sexual abuse and rape – or, if they have become victims, to survive with pride. The Network today serves over 30,000 girls in 45 districts across Zimbabwe.

Ms. Makoni’s work has won supporters in Zimbabwe and internationally, including the 2007 World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child.

Nevertheless, Ms. Makoni repeatedly has been threatened, arrested, and imprisoned. In 2007, she was jailed twice: for allegedly “sneaking” foreign journalists into Zimbabwe, and for allegedly violating child protection laws by helping arrange to televise the testimonies of young rape victims.

More updates to come on Betty Makoni’s Ginetta Sagan Fund United States tour throughout April & May 2008. Please check back to this site or email gsf@aiusa.org for further information. Full Biography » | Read the press release » (PDF) | Take Action! (PDF) | Read the Winter 2008 Ginetta Fund Newsletter (PDF

PURPOSE OF THE FUND
The purpose of the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread.

Ginetta Sagan

The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes individual accomplishment, but also serves as a beacon of hope to women everywhere who are fighting for human rights.

Call for NominationsThe Ginetta Sagan Fund of AIUSA is now accepting nominations for its 2008 Annual Award for the Human Rights of Women and Children. Here is your opportunity to honor women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. Please submit your nominations for the 2008 Ginetta Sagan Award by downloading and completing the application form no later than October 15, 2007.

The Award:
  • recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk
  • enhances the recipient's ability to live and work freely
  • protects the recipient's capacity to continue her work
  • brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis region or issue for which the recipient works

The creation of the Ginetta Sagan Fund emphasizes that more human rights work must be done by and for women. The $10,000 award is announced and presented each year at the Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International USA. Read about past recipients.

HISTORY OF THE FUND

For more than three decades, the late Ginetta Sagan, recipient of the 1996 Presidential Medal of Freedom, fought for the lives and rights of prisoners of conscience throughout the world. A tireless crusader and eternal optimist, Ginetta's passionate dedication inspired generations of human rights advocates. In honor of her humanitarian achievements, Amnesty International USA created the Ginetta Sagan Fund in 1994, one of AIUSA's first permanently endowed funds and the only fund that specifically addresses the needs of women and children. The Ginetta Sagan Fund ensures the continuation in perpetuity of Ginetta's human rights legacy and brings worldwide attention to the abuses perpetrated on women and children.


HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE GINETTA SAGAN FUND

Your support of the Ginetta Sagan Fund will show women and children who are victims of human rights abuses that someone cares enough about their plight to intervene.

You may wish to consider the following options for contribution:
  • Cash gifts
  • Gifts of appreciated securities
  • Gifts of real estate or charitable remainder interests
  • Transfers of assets from another foundation
  • Naming the Ginetta Sagan Fund as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy
  • Including the Ginetta Sagan Fund in a will

Cash and in-kind contributions to the Ginetta Sagan Fund are deductibleunder section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. Checks should be made payable to AIUSA/Ginetta Sagan Fund (GSF).

Send donations to our San Francisco Office:

AIUSA/Ginetta Sagan Fund
1663 Mission St.
Suite 604
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 252-1750


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