Front Line Award 2005: Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Sudan

The winner of the inaugural Front Line Award was Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Chairperson of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO). The Front Line Award was presented to Dr Mudawi's wife, Sabah, and daughter, Huda, by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, at a ceremony in Dublin's City Hall on 13th May 2005. At the time of the presentation Dr Mudawi was in detention in Khartoum having been arrested for the third time in eighteen months on 9th May 2005. He was released again on 16th May 2005.


Dr Mudawi is one of the founders of SUDO which is an independent non-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, peace building and development. Since its establishment in 2001, SUDO has successfully implemented various human rights projects as well as water, sanitation and health projects.


Under Dr. Mudawi's leadership, SUDO has been active in Darfur, holding workshops with different groups on human rights and providing humanitarian assistance to the hundreds of thousands who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict. Dr Mudawi and SUDO have also been working to implementing a peace-building and reconciliation project with different tribal groups in Southern Darfur.


The annual Front Line Award honours a human rights defender, who has displayed exceptional courage in working non-violently for the rights of others as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


For more information on the Front Line award visit http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/award

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[shoshme2]

salam

[emsudan]

A hero like him always disappear in Sudan.. The goverment crush those who work for human rights in Sudan. This is not new to Sudan.. a lot of lifes were lost and still today..

[ehabyassir]

fair done.