NOOR Filmmaker Olga Kravets has directed one more year a series of three short films for the 2022 Martin Ennals Awards edition, celebrated on June 2nd 2022 in Geneva.
The film portraits are part of the communication campaign of the Martin Ennals Foundation to present the 2022 nominees’ struggle and life commitment to defending human rights during the yearly ceremony awards.
January 2022, Burkina Faso / Dr. Daouda Diallo, 2022 nominee to the Martin Ennals Awards
Photo © Olga Kravets / NOOR
The laureates of this year are Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja (imprisoned), a Bahraini-Danish leader of freedom and democracy, Dr. Daouda Diallo, a Burkinabe pharmacist by training and a committed human rights defender documenting human rights violations by both government factions and Islamist groups, and Pham Doan Trang (imprisoned), a leading journalist and an advocate for democracy, raising awareness on a broad human rights agenda in Vietnam.
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