Bo Kyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) who featured in the Burma mag and subsequently on Radio New Internationalist has just won a Human Rights Defender Award from Human Rights Watch.
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Dinyar Godrej has been one of the co-editors of the New Internationalist magazine since 2001. His association with the magazine (including numerous stints as guest editor) goes back to the late 1980s and he has reported on many human rights issues. He has also been a contributing writer for the annual One World Almanac.
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