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"Human rights seeks to lend voice to the voiceless and to render visible the invisible," says Stacey Kabat, a long-time advocate for the rights of battered women. "The Reebok Human Rights Award helps activists achieve their goals by bringing international attention to the injustices that they've been fighting."

Kabat credits the Reebok Human Rights Award, which she received in 1992, with helping to highlight domestic violence as a human rights issue. "The award helped enormously by providing recognition to the importance of supporting battered women," she says. "For this, I will be eternally grateful to Reebok."

Members of the international community of nongovernmental organizations are urged to nominate young men and women to receive the award. Candidates must be 30 years of age or younger. They cannot advocate violence or belong to an organization that advocates violence, and they must be working on an issue that directly relates to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Women and men of all races, ethnic groups, nationalities, and religious backgrounds are eligible.

Past Reebok award recipients have been recognized for their work on such issues as: fighting for Native American land rights; protesting human rights abuses in Tibet; battling racial bias in the death penalty in the United States; protecting the rights of ethnic minorities in Burma; monitoring human rights abuses in Nigeria; and rescuing child prostitutes in Thailand.

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