2021 Committee Awards
2021 Committee Awards Quiz
Test your knowledge about the outstanding contributions made by various committee members in 2021! This quiz challenges you to identify the recipients of the prestigious Committee Awards based on their remarkable efforts and achievements.
- Challenge yourself with multiple choice questions.
- Learn about the impact of each nominee's contributions.
- Celebrate the efforts of amazing committee leaders!
2021 Outstanding Committee Newsletter – This is given to the committee editors of a newsletter that is produced regularly by the committee, contains a variety of interesting articles that bring value to the committee’s membership, and is easily available to the public (through ABA Connect, etc.)
International Human Rights Committee - the International Human Rights Committee Quarterly Newsletter and the monthly e-brief of the Committee’s Business and Human Rights Subcommittee. These provided a summary of current events in their respective areas. They were both extremely professionally done and provided opportunities for young lawyers in the committee to contribute short and longer feature articles.
Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee - During the 2020-2021 ABA bar year, the committee published four committee newsletters. All are filled with substantive articles on diverse topics, authored by a diverse group of lawyers: Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, and Spring 2021.
2021 Outstanding Volunteer – This is given to committee leader(s) who have devoted a large number of extra hours to a particular committee project (such as a policy initiative, creating a database, etc.).
Morvarid Bagheri - Morvarid is a very committed and dynamic contributor to the International Human Rights Committee. She has worked on numerous policy initiatives and her work is always of an exceptional quality; she is very thorough and an excellent writer and editor, given her extensive international human rights knowledge coupled with a strong awareness of international issues. Morvarid has also been a key contributor to the development and implication of committee programs and has reached out, for business and human rights webinars, to attract top notch speakers, both academics and practitioners. Finally, in addition to her professional expertise, she is an absolute pleasure to work with as a team member. During the ABA year Morvarid served as a Policy Vice Chair and coordinated with the other Vice Chairs for Policy work on over 40 statements and documents prepared by CHR. She worked on numerous International Human Rights Committee policy initiatives, including the RoL letter on Myanmar, the submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and another to the UN Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee. She assisted the Middle East Committee with the RoL statement on Saudi human rights defenders policy statements.
2021 Unsung Member – This is given to a committee leader who does a great deal of work behind the scenes, and whose contributions to the Section most members may not be aware of.
Anne Bodley – This year the Africa Committee would like to nominate Anne Bodley. After years of tireless work as our Year In Review Vice Chair, Anne took a well-deserved break. However, she did not rest on her laurels. Instead, she took a leading role in securing a half-dozen authors to contribute to our Committee’s section of the COVID-19 Newsletter. Moreover, she was instrumental in securing speakers for our monthly meetings. Over the past year, Anne introduced us to the following guests: a. Mr Stephen Karangizi (Director and CEO, African Legal Support Facility, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) b. Mr. Saad Alfarargi (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, Egypt) c. Professor Y.S. (Steve) Lee (Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute, Georgia State University) d. Ivan Ojakol (Attorney, Kampala, Uganda). Anne also won In-House Lawyer of the Year in the First 100 Years Inspirational Women in Law awards, for her work with her charity, Lex:lead and its efforts promoting equality and diversity in the law.
Cailen Labarge – Cailen LaBarge was not an officer or even a member of the International Human Rights Steering Committee but did a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes, initially in connection with the committee’s Working Group on Climate Change and Human Rights, and toward the end of the ABA year also on other initiatives. She organized and moderated the webinar on Extrajudicial killings of Indigenous Forest Defenders in Brazil that explored challenges and risks for Brazilian indigenous HRDs who attempt to protect their lands, livelihoods, and culture and how lawyers can assist them. In doing so, she coordinated the webinar with the Brazilian Bar Association. She has been reviewing existing ABA policies to determine whether they are sufficient to support Presidential statements relating to the environment/climate change and human rights or whether the International Human Rights Committee needs to propose additional R&Rs. She has been working with the Native American Affairs Committee on a program related to climate change and indigenous peoples. She was one of the key contributors to the draft comments to UNCESCR’s Draft General Comment on ‘Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’.
Elizabeth Barad – the Africa Committee would like to nominate Elizabeth for the award. Elizabeth was instrumental in securing the following speakers for our monthly meetings: Ugo Solinas (Senior Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations), Vagn Joensen (Duty judge of the Mechanism for International Tribunals, Arusha, Tanzania, and Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).
Morvarid Bagheri – for their many excellent contributions on behalf of the International Human Rights Committee in the policy area, including reviewing and editing Center for Human Rights reports. This award is described as being appropriate for a committee leader who does a great deal of work behind the scenes and whose contributions to the Section most members may not be aware of. This defines the work of Morvarid Bagheri. Morvarid has served all of this year as both the co-vice chair for policy and the vice chair for programs for the ABA International Law Section’s International Human Rights Committee. The hours she has spent organizing resources for the policy leaders in the International Human Rights Committee, organizing reviews of reports for the Committee and for the Center for Human Rights, and organizing outstanding programs, including moderating several of those programs, is simply without parallel.
2021 Most Creative Committee Meeting During Covid – This is given to a committee leader(s) who gathered their committees or others creatively outside of a regular committee monthly call.
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