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Yayori Awards seek to honor activists, artists, journalists working on women’s issues worldwide

June 30, 2010 by tokyoprogressive Leave a Comment

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The organizing committee for the Yayori Awards is pleased to announce that nomination forms are now available for the 2010 competition of its program.

女性人権活動奨励賞(やより賞)

やより賞・やよりジャーナリスト賞、推薦受付中です─締切8月31日

「女性人権活動奨励賞(やより賞)」とは

松井やより写真NPO法人「女たちの戦争と平和人権基金」は、過去から現在、そして未来を国際的につなぐ、女性の人権と平和の確立を目指す活動を進めます。そ の柱が、「女たちの戦争と平和資料館」建設運営事業と、女性人権活動奨励事業(やより賞)です。愛と勇気に満ち溢れたジャーナリストであった松井やよりさ んの遺志に連なる活動、志をアジア中の女性たちとともに進めていく一助に、この「女性人権活動奨励賞(やより賞)」を役立ててください。どうぞ皆さんもご 一緒に。
松井やより(プロフィールを見る)女性人権活動奨励賞(やより賞)には、「やより賞」と「やよりジャーナリスト賞」があります。

 日本語のサイトはこちらへ

女性人権活動奨励賞(やより賞)

 

The Yayori Awards were created through the final will and funds of the late Yayori Matsui, a well-known journalist and activist on feminist and human rights issues. Her many accomplishments include establishing the Asia-Japan Women’s Resource Center (AJWRC), organizing the Violence Against Women in War Network, Japan (VAWW-NET Japan), and acting as a key organizer for the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery held in 2000.

The Yayori Awards are presented during each competition round in two separate categories:

1) The Women’s Human Rights Activities Award (commonly referred to as the Yayori Award) is presented to a grassroots-level woman activist, journalist, or artist who works with socially marginalized peoples to solve serious social issues in Asia and other regions, and whose work helps to create a 21st century free from war and discrimination against women.

Nomination forms for this award must be submitted in English. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

2) The Yayori Journalist Award is presented to a woman journalist or artist (either an individual or group) who vividly portrays the situation of women from a global gender perspective.

Self-nominations for this award are acceptable. Since the nominee’s future work shall be subject to publication in Japanese, however, all submissions must be in the Japanese language.

Winners in both categories will receive a certificate and a monetary award in the amount of 500,000 yen. In the event that multiple awardees are selected for the Yayori Journalist Award, the money will be divided amongst all recipients.

Past winners have included a group of women working to bring justice to victims of sexual violence committed during the civil war in Guatemala, a feminist photojournalist from Nepal working on issues of peace and human rights, and numerous others doing important work for empowerment and justice at the grassroots level. The Japan Times did a feature story on the 2008 Yayori Journalist Award winner’s work on the fight against nuclear power plants in a Japanese town.

The organizing committee is seeking nominations from around the world for both awards, and will send printed leaflets upon request. The deadline for this year’s competition is August 31, 2010.

Detailed information regarding the awards, including a pamphlet, nomination forms, and list of all past award recipients are all available on the Yayori Award website.

 

Filed Under: Gender/ジェンダー, Japan and Asia/日本とアジア, Social Justice/社会正義 Tagged With: class issues and homelessness, feminism, gay issues, homeless, racism/human rights, War, war and gender, war crimes, World War II

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