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WOLA HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS
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Mayflower Renaissance Hotel | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAS: Sen. Patrick Leahy’s foreign policy aide Tim Reisner and Justicia y Paz, the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace in Colombia, received the Washington Office on Latin America’s (WOLA) 10th annual Human Rights Awards. Reisner was recognized for his efforts during a 30-year career as a congressional aide, including his role in last year’s historic restoration of diplomatic ties between the U.S and Cuba. Justicia y Paz was honored for working towards peace and supporting victims and displacement caused by Colombia’s 50-year-old armed conflict. In accepting the award on behalf of Justicia y Paz, Danilo Ruedo called it “a tribute to the victim’s of Colombia’s conflict those who stand in the face of fear and the effects of terror.”
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Hungarian Amb. Réka Szemerkényi, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Bulgarian Amb. Elena Poptodorova
Sec. John Kerry and Foreign Policy President David Rothkopf
FOREIGN POLICY’S DIPLOMAT OF THE YEAR AWARD DINNER Park Hyatt | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Foreign Policy magazine awarded Secretary of State John F. Kerry its 2015 Diplomat of the Year award for his “hard work and key achievements, most notably his role in negotiating the Obama Administration’s historic nuclear deal with Iran.” The awardee was introduced by United Arab Emirates Amb. Yousef Al-Otaiba, who presented Kerry with a gag gift – a bag from stationary cycling studio SoulCycle, before suggesting an indoor workout might be a better fit for the cycling statesman after his accident in Europe earlier this year. Also recognized: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Vital Voices president Alyse Nelson, who received FP’s inaugural Commercial Diplomat of the Year and Citizen Diplomat of the Year awards, respectively.
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