Shulamith Koenig

Shula Koenig, recipient of the 2003 UN Human Rights Award, founded in 1988 the People's Movement for Human Rights Learning (PDHRE), an organisation that has facilitated directly and indirectly ‘learning and dialogue about human rights as a way of life for social-economic transformation with a gender perspective’ in more than 60 countries.
Besides initiating the ‘Human Rights Cities’ programme to strengthen the practical application of the holistic framework of human rights, she successfully lobbied for the UN to declare a Decade for HR Education.