The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

In 1963, the Institute for Policy Studies opened its doors with the belief that progressive thought, advocacy, and action can build a better society. Ten years later, Chile's democratically elected government, led by President Salvador Allende, was overthrown by a military coup. These two histories became inextricably linked on September 21, 1976, when agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet detonated a car bomb that killed former Chilean diplomat and director of the Institute's Transnational Institute, Orlando Letelier, and IPS development associate, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, in Washington, DC.

Each year since the murders, the Institute for Policy Studies has honored these fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and elsewhere in the Americas with the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards.

 

Read about the
31st Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
October 17, 2007

Photos and transcript from the
Sheridan Circle Memorial
September 17, 2007

More about the Awards:

• The 30th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards (2006)
• The 2005 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards honored Barrios Unidos and Judge Juan Guzman
• See photos and more from the 2005 Sheridan Circle Memorial Ceremony
• List of Honorees, 1978-2005 Learn more about Letelier, Moffitt, and the past honorees with the book
• Light Among Shadows: A Celebration of Orlando Letelier, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, and Heroes of the Human Rights Movement, IPS 2001