2000 EDITION: XIV Solidarity Prize awarded to the BAYT-Al-THAGAFA association, and the Honorary Prize for Work in the Mass Media awarded to Anna Tortajada and Mònica Bernabe

IDHC awarded BAYT-Al-THAGAFA, an association directed by Sister Teresa Losada, with the XIV Premi Solidaritat. The objective of this association is the cultural and social integration of immigrant Arab women in Catalunya.

IDHC wanted to recognize the fundamental work of this association for our society.

The Third Honorary Prize for Work in the Mass Media was awarded to the journalists Anna Tortajada and Mònica Bernabe. They went to Afghanistan, dressed in a burka, to experienced how common Afghanistani women live. Here, the journalists discovered how Afghanistani women and their daughters still live under a regime of terror and cruelty.

The ceremony took place in the Catalonian Parliament, in the “Passos Perduts” room, on the 20th Februrary, 2000. Joan Rigol I Roig, president of the Parliament, and José Manuel Bandrés, honorific president of the Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya presided the act.

The act consisted of an assembly with the Presidents and the prizewinners. A work of art, donated by the painter Paula Leiva, was presented as recognition. At the end, the Vivaldi Cor Choir played a concert of choral songs.