The event is at 12:45pm, on Wednesday, November 11 in the Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations. Tickets are $90. Please send check to: Dag Hammarskjöld Fund, 512 Northampton Street, No. 124A, Edwardsville, PA 18704 - or pay by credit card at www.unjournalismfellowship.org
The Fund brings journalists from developing nations to New York each autumn to cover the UN General Assembly for 10-12 weeks. It is managed on a voluntary basis by UN-based correspondents, who raise monies to support it. The 2009 Journalism Fellowship recipients are from Egypt, Ghana, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
Emma Thompson, an Oscar winning actress and writer is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation. She is co-curator of an Interactive art installation - "Journey"- which uses seven transport containers to illustrate the brutal and harrowing experiences of women sold into the sex trade. "It's time for everybody to look at this and say the buying and selling of human beings for whatever reason is not appropriate in the 21st century and should never be allowed again," she says.
Ms Thompson achieved fame in the United States in a series of literary adaptations, notably "Howards End" (1992), for which she won the best actress Academy Award and "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), which earned her the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. She is the only person ever to win both acting and screenplay Oscars. She has appeared in more than 25 films, at least 10 television dramas as well as a host of theatre productions. Ms Thompson starred most recently in "Brideshead Revisited" and "Last Chance Harvey" opposite Dustin Hoffman.
Helen Bamber OBE is a psychotherapist who has worked tirelessly for survivors of human rights abuses since she helped survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of World War II. In 1961, Bamber joined Amnesty International shortly after its inception and became chairman of its first British group.
She established the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture in 1985. Ten years later she founded the Helen Bamber Foundation to aid survivors of gross human rights violations. The foundation provides medical consultation, therapeutic care, and practical support and conducts human rights campaigns.
"Despite lots of information, human trafficking remains a global scourge, with victims forced into labor and subjected to sexual abuse," said Evelyn Leopold, chair of the Fund. "Helen Bamber and Emma Thompson want the world to listen and to do something."
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