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The Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to recognizes and assists women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The Ginetta Sagan Award recognizes individual accomplishment, but also serves as a beacon of hope to women everywhere who are fighting for human rights.

Call For Nominations
The Ginetta Sagan Fund of AIUSA is now accepting nominations for its 2010 Annual Award for the Human Rights of Women and Children. We invite Amnesty International membership, organizations and individuals to take part in nominating an outstanding woman for this coveted award. This is your opportunity to shed light on human rights abuses around the world and honor the women that promote human dignity. Please submit your nominations for the Ginetta Sagan Award by completing the application form.

The Award:

* Recognizes outstanding achievement, often at great personal risk.
* Enhances the recipient's ability to live and work freely, and protects the recipient's capacity to continue her work, by bringing a new level of international attention to her accomplishments and the obstacles she faces.
* Brings increased international scrutiny to the crisis, region or issue for which the recipient works.

History of the Fund
For more than three decades, the late Ginetta Sagan, recipient of the 1996 Presidential Medal of Freedom, fought for the lives and rights of prisoners of conscience throughout the world. A tireless crusader and eternal optimist, Ginetta's passionate dedication inspired generations of human rights advocates. In honor of her humanitarian achievements, Amnesty International USA created the Ginetta Sagan Fund in 1994, one of AIUSA's first permanently endowed funds and the only fund that specifically addresses the needs of women and children. The Ginetta Sagan Fund ensures the continuation in perpetuity of Ginetta's human rights legacy and brings worldwide attention to the abuses perpetrated on women and children.

Support The Ginetta Sagan Fund
Your support of the Ginetta Sagan Fund will show women and children who are victims of human rights abuses that someone cares enough to intervene and raise awareness on behalf of their plight.

You may wish to consider the following options for contribution:

* Cash gifts
* Gifts of appreciated securities
* Gifts of real estate or charitable remainder interests
* Transfers of assets from another foundation
* Naming the Ginetta Sagan Fund as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy
* Including the Ginetta Sagan Fund in a will
* Cash and in-kind contributions to the Ginetta Sagan Fund are deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. Checks should be made payable to Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA.


Please mail contributions to:
The Ginetta Sagan Fund
c/o Amnesty International USA
5 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001

For questions about donations or more information
on the call for nominations please contact:
Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA
350 Sansome Street, Suite 210
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 288-1800 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (415) 288-1800 end_of_the_skype_highlighting ext. 1745
gsf@aiusa.org
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