Friday, November 19, 2010

2010 RFK Human Rights Gala




RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights

Honors George Clooney with Ripple of Hope Award and Raises $3 Million to support Human Rights Defenders around the World at Star-studded Gala attended by Theary Seng

(Chelsea Piers, New York City, 17 Nov. 2010)

George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis, Kerry Kennedy (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010)
Mary Kennedy Richardson, Dr. Doan Viet Hoat (Vietnam’s Sakharov), Bobby Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010)
Dr. Doan Viet Hoat (the Sakharov of Vietnam), Harry Wu – both former prisoners of conscience and my dinner companion at the George Clooney gala (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010).
More about these inspirational heroes at:

My inspirational dinner companion, Harry Wu who was imprisoned for 20 years in China (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010)
George Clooney accepting the award at the $1,000 a seat fundraising gala to support human rights defenders around the world (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010)
For more photos of celebrities (Jon Stewart, supermodel Liya Kebede, Jamie Foxx, Nicolas Kristof, Gail King, out-going and incoming NY Governors, etc.), see:

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