CJA Wins third annual Thomas J. Dodd prize in international justice and human rights!
On October 1, 2007, CJA received the Third Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights. The Dodd Prize is awarded biannually by the University of Connecticut to an individual or group who has made a significant effort to advance the cause of international justice and global human rights. The award was established in 2003 to commemorate the distinguished career in public service of Thomas J. Dodd, who served as Executive Trial Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, as Connecticut Senator from 1959 to 1971, and who fought against infringement and suppression of human rights in the United States and abroad.
As a Dodd award recipient, CJA joins the ranks of Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern for their work on the peace process in Northern Ireland, South African Justice Richard Goldstone for his tireless work against apartheid and his investigations into human rights abuses in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and Louis Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who is best known for serving an indictment on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 1999.
CJA was nominated for the prize by Ambassador Robert E. White, our longtime friend and expert witness in our El Salvador cases.
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 CJA Board member Chet Atkins and Senator Christopher Dodd greet each other at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center before the award ceremony for the Dodd Prize. |
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From left to right: Thomas Wilsted, the Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center; Ralph Steinhardt, CJA Board member; Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut; Michael Hogan, President of the University of Connecticut; Chris McKenna, CJA Development and Outreach Director; and Pamela Merchant, CJA Executive Director at the Third Annual Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights award ceremony. 
Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut presents CJA Executive Director Pamela Merchant with the Third Annual Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights in front of over 250 guests at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.