PRESS RELEASE

 

N° 77/09

 

jurY SELECTS WINNERS AND FINALISTS IN THE POSTER CONTEST

 

Washington, DC, November 10, 2009 – The jury selected today the finalists and Winters of the poster contest organized hmong children and young adults of the region, in the context of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Below are the results of the jury’s selection, as well as the people’s choice award, according to the votes of the assistants to the inaugural reception of the poster exhibition that takes place in the General Secretariat Building of the Organization of American States (OAS).

 

Category: Young People

 

Winner: Emily Phillips, Defending Human Rights, United States

People’s Choice Award: Emily Phillips, Defending Human Rights, United States

 

Finalists:

·         Emily Phillips, Defending Human Rights, Estados Unidos

·         Gloria Estefanía Mayo Gómez, Defendiendo los derechos con las manos puestas en el corazón, México

·         Ignacio Andrée Muñoz Flores, La Fuerza de la Libertad, Chile

·         Alba Susana Ramírez Ramírez, Sin título, Guatemala

·         Florencia Barolín Gonnet, Por nuestros derechos, por nuestra libertad, Uruguay

·         José Alejandro Ramírez Pineda, Sin título, Guatemala

·         Lucrecia Barrientos Fabián, Igualdad en la Diferencia, Guatemala

·         Luis Eduardo Sandoval Arriaza, Uniendo visiones de crecimiento, Guatemala

·         Alice Marie de la Roca Dementhon, El grito, Guatemala

·         Andrés Felipe Ayala, Sin título, Colombia

 

 

Category: Children

 

Winner: Ingrid Pereira Paine, Marcela Espinoza Nahuelán and Karol Espinoza Nahuelán. Tenemos derecho a mucho más. Chile

People’s Choice Award: María Cantero, Nosotros también tenemos derecho a ser felices, Chile

 

Finalists:

·         Ingrid Pereira Paine, Marcela Espinoza Nahuelán y Karol Espinoza Nahuelán. Tenemos derecho a mucho más. Chile

·         Claudia Andrea Cerda Silva, Si tú no existieras?, Chile

·         Gerson Antonio Gutiérrez Sandoval, Un mundo soñado, Chile

·         Rhonda Wilson, Sin título, Grenada

·         Cristóbal Javier Fuentes Arancibia, Sin título, Chile

·         Obra colectiva. Pablo León Mora, Felipe Manquemilla Gallina, Alvaro Obreque Marihuan, Bryan Diaz Moncada, Ricardo Salamanca Muñoz, Catherine Cea Cuevas. Derechos del Niño. Chile

·         Javiera Carrasco, Ricardo Rodríguez, Matías Arellano, María José Obregón. Tú y mis derechos humanos, no a la discriminación. Chile.

·         Nicolás Amaya Orduz, Arco Iris de la Concertación, Colombia

·         Ana María Lobos Caro, En la vida todos tenemos derechos humanos, Chile

·         Bastián Marcelo Cáceres Ballestero, Sin título, Chile

 

A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has the mandate to promote respect for human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this matter. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who act in a personal capacity, without representing a particular country, and who are elected by the OAS General Assembly.

  

 

Useful links

See the posters

IACHR Web site

 

 

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Press contact: María Isabel Rivero
Tel. (202) 458-3867
E-mail: mrivero@oas.org

 

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