Los Angeles hosted the Reebok Human Rights Award 2005 ceremony where awards were given out to four human rights activists, including Zarema Mukusheva from the Russian Federation. The Reebok Human Rights Foundation recognizes young activists who have made significant contributions to human rights causes through nonviolent means. Honoraries, who are 30 years of age or younger, receive a $50,000 grant from the Reebok Human Rights Foundation to further their work. (16-JULY-05)
Zarema Mukusheva, a human rights monitor, works amid great danger to record brutal human rights abuses against civilians in the Chechen Republic. Her work shows that statistics don’t illustrate the quantity of Chechen citizens who die every day. Zarema recorded by camera both abuses and violence against human rights, and its aftermath in the Chechen Republic. She documented interviews with victims and their families and met with local authorities to denounce the attacks.
In 1999 Zarema began working at Memorial, a Russian human rights organization that monitors human rights violations in the Russian Federation, the Chechen Republic and leads historic educational activities. Zarema worked in Grozny and the mountainous areas of the Chechen Republic with her camera which documented many findings such as the exhumation of mass graves, abandoned corpses of young women who had been raped and tortured and the tiny bodies of five brothers and sisters who were killed in a bombing raid as they huddled in their mother’s arms. Her work has successfully brought international attention to murders, mass graves, disappearances and kidnappings in the Chechen Republic.
Source: http://www.reebok.com/static/global/initiatives/rights/news/#
