TFCivilCourageNewsV10-2-p4_TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 9/12/14 5:02 PM Page 4 The Train Foundation Past Honorees Trustees and Officers 2013 Dr. Denis Mukwege 2005 Min Ko Naing 2001 Paul Kamara Civil Courage News The Hon. John Train Physician and advocate for Long-imprisoned Editor and journalist Trustee, Chairman victims of violence in the campaigner for fighting tyranny in Sierra Journal of the Civil Courage Prize Vol. 10, No. 2 • September 2014 Ambassador Edward Streator Democratic Republic of democracy in Burma Leone Trustee, President the Congo Anna Politkovskaya 2000 Natasa Kandic Ariadne Calvo-Platero 2012 Yu Jie Fearless reporter on For Steadfast Resistance to Evil at Great Personal Risk Trustee, Executive Vice-President atrocities in Chechnya, Persecuted journalist and Author and advocate for activist, Belgrade Musa T. Klebnikov reform in China assassinated Trustee, Secretary Sergei Khodorovich 2011 Triveni Acharya Munir Said Thalib† Louis N. Bickford (Honorable Mention) Italian Nicola Gratteri Wins 2014 Defender of victims of Exposed disappearances New York District Attorney Trustee Solzhenitsyn collaborator human trafficking in India and corruption in Ambassador John Menzies Indonesia, assassinated exiled to hard labor in Cyrus Vance Jr. to deliver Civil Courage Prize for Relentless Trustee Lydia Cacho Ribeiro Siberia Champion of abused 2004 Ambassador Nicholas Platt Emadeddin Baghi Pastor Dietrich Keynote Speech at Ceremony Efforts to Prosecute Mafia Trustee women and Imprisoned for exposing children in Mexico Bonhoeffer† Ann Brownell Sloane assassinations of Iranian yrus R. Vance The 2014 Civil Courage Prize will intellectuals Anti-Nazi martyr Trustee 2010 Andrew White Judge Giovanni CJr., New York be awarded to Nicola Gratteri, Ital- Sumner Gerard III Steadfast advocate for peace Lovemore Madhuku Falcone† County District At- Treasurer in the Middle East Lawyer persecuted for ian magistrate and Special Prosecu- demanding constitutional Assassinated while prose- Thomas Hiner, Esq. 2009 torney since 2010, tor for Reggio Calabria. He will Counsel Aminatou Haidar reform in Zimbabwe cuting the Sicilian Mafia Champion of the non- will give the keynote Nina Train Choa Rosemary Nelson† travel to New York for the cere- violent campaign for self- Abdul al-Latif Advisor al-Mayah† Civil rights lawyer, assas- address at the Civil mony in October where he will determination in Western sinated while defending Lisa Train Sahara Iraqi political scientist and Courage Prize Cere- Advisor human accused persons in receive the medal and $50,000 prize. Northern Ireland C. Bowdoin Train 2008 Ali Salem rights advocate, assassi- mony this October For the past 25 years, and under nated Advisor Egyptian author and Neelan Tiruchelvam† 15th. Since his inau- constant threat to his life, Gratteri Lawyer and educator, Civil Courage Prize Advisors journalist. Voice for 2003 peace and reason in the Shahnaz Bukhari killed by a suicide bomber guration, Mr. Vance has enhanced the has been on the front lines of the Ambassador Glenn R.W. Babb Battler against the burn- Middle East while working for solutions Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as a battle against the Mafia group George Biddle ing and other abuse of to Tamil-Sri Lankan Prof. Philip C. Bobbitt 2007 Phillip Buck Pakistani women conflict national leader in criminal justice by ex- known as ’Ndrangheta. Gratteri has Imprisoned in China for The Hon. Hodding Carter III Raoul Wallenberg† panding the office’s expertise on an array of guiding North Korean 2002 Vladimiro Roca been relentless in his efforts to stop Baroness Rawlings Saved thousands of Jews refugees in their escape to Antunez 21st century crimes including identity theft, Enid C. B. Schoettle from extermination the organization’s international nar- freedom Champion of freedom, Sir Robert Wade-Gery cybercrime, white-collar fraud, hate crimes, cotic trafficking, arms dealing and ingly fearless dedication to his goal. Cuba † = posthumous Past Trustees and Advisors 2006 Rafael Marques terrorism, domestic violence, human traf- other illegal activities. Though He has a deep understanding of the Gustavo Arcos Dr. John Chipman de Morais ficking, and violent and gang-related crimes. Bergnes particularly active in the Southern methods, legal and illegal, used by Robert P. DeVecchi Journalist who exposed the slaughter of Angolans (Honorable Mention) Mr. Vance has had considerable personal the organization, on an interna- The Hon. Richard J. Goldstone Italian region of Calabria, the and the plundering of Early democracy activist, Virginia Armat Hurt experience in prosecuting organized crime, ’Ndrangheta has far-reaching global tional scale, in order to move illegal national assets Cuba The Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick dating from his time as Assistant District influence, including illegal activities gains around the globe and into the Kumi Naidoo Attorney in New York in the 1980s. At the John Dimitri Panitza and investments in Europe, the US ‘real’ economy. Just in the area of Senator Claiborne Pell time of a recent organized crime arrest in and Africa. Their financial relation- narcotics, the Mafia organizations of John Temple Swing The Civil Courage Prize honors civil courage—steadfast resistance to evil at great New York, Vance said, “This indictment ships extend to South American Sicily, Naples and Calabria are esti- Patrons personal risk—rather than military valor. The acts so recognized should have taken serves as a reminder that organized crime is cocaine barons as well as drug deal- mated to have an annual turnover in Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilder place deliberately, over time. still a persistent problem in New York ers in the US and even the IRA. excess of Euro100 billion. Although The Clay Foundation Nominations for the Prize are solicited primarily from non-profit, non-governmental City.” He added that the Rackets Bureau the Italian state has had some occa- Founding Patron organizations worldwide. Further information may be obtained from our website: Gratteri has had a seminal role in “has a long tradition of investigating and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn www.civilcourageprize.org. the arrest of more than 120 criminal sional success in stemming the prosecuting criminal organizations that use fugitives, and personally led investi- activities of the Mafia and seizing its “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” intimidation and fear to make a profit.” gations which have eradicated some assets, Gratteri believes the —Edmund Burke In July 2011, Mr. Vance was elected by of the most important branches of ’Ndrangheta is not only growing his peers to serve as President of the the ’Ndrangheta. Gratteri’s success wealthier but also strengthening its District Attorneys Association of the State is due not only to his extensive grip on society, for example, coercing of New York for the 2012 term. He also Civil Courage News The Train Foundation knowledge of the intricacies of the support through both income and serves as co-chair of the New York State Journal of the Civil Courage Prize 505 Park Avenue Tel: 212.888.5959 apparatus of the organization, but jobs in exchange for votes in local 20th Floor Fax: 212.888.4018 Permanent Commission on Sentencing. also to his remarkable and seem- elections. continued on page 2 New York, NY 10022 www.civilcourageprize.org Page 4 September 2014 TFCivilCourageNewsV10-2-p4_TF - Civil Courage Newsletter 9/12/14 5:02 PM Page 2 Letter from the Chairman Gratteri Wins 2014 Recent News of Past Winners Civil Courage Prize Denis Mukwege Emmadeddin Baghi “Steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk.” You are likely to find this In June 2014, Dr. Denis Mukwege participated in a global Emmadeddin Baghi, one of Iran’s most respected activists, virtue, indispensable to good government, among prosecutors and reporters. continued from page 1 Gratteri, who was summit on sexual violence in London. Reuters reported wrote an open letter to French President Francois We have tried to give the Civil Courage Prize to those, like Aleksandr born and raised in Reggio Calabria where that Mukwege met with British Prime Minister David Hollande, criticizing France’s stance in the nuclear talks in Solzhenitzyn, who perform their heroic acts not in the course of their profes- his family farmed, watched many of his Cameron and said he had only one message to give: that Geneva. Baghi claims that France’s tough position played sion but rather as acts of supremely good citizenship. Nonetheless, in some childhood friends go on to become members the “international community must establish a red line for into the hands of hardliners in Iran and undermined the instances the heroes in those professions were performing deeds so dangerous of the ’Ndrangheta. Beyond engaging in the use of rape in war in the same way it had done for the work of human rights campaigners, who were hurt by that an exception had to be made. I well remember Anna Politkovskaya saying efforts to stop the organization’s illegal use of chemical weapons.” He also stated that a new word international sanctions. Baghi wrote: “In my capacity as a that she expected to be killed, which she was, as did Giovanni Falcone, who activities, the prosecutor emphasizes the should be found to replace “rape” because “it did not con- human rights activist, I would like to urge you to recon- was indeed blown up by the Sicilian Mafia. We feel that Nicola Gratteri fits need to focus on weakening the organiza- vey the comprehensive destruction caused by war-time