Chris Mburo
Senior Human Rights Advisor at U.N. Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award is very special and personal to our Chapter. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and great champion of the Association visited the Chapter frequently. She signed San Diego Chapter’s office lease in Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, in 1953 and returned years later to further secure UNA-USA San Diego’s a physical presence with the UN Building, steps away from the International Cottages. Over the past decades the organization has increased public visibility of the UN locally and nationally with the executive and legislative branches of the US government in Washington, DC. It proudly collaborates with community partners while living into UNA-USA San Diego’s mission to locally educate, advocate and mobilize for a Culture of Peace and Global Citizenship.
With the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, we recognize individuals that believe in the goals of the United Nations and effect positive, lasting change in their work. The award has been given – every year – since 1998.
Senior Human Rights Advisor at U.N. Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Xavier Becerra California Attorney General & Dr. Janina Scarlett | Clinical Psychologist, San Diego
CEO, Project Concern International; Former Deputy Director Peace Corps
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General & Deputy Executive Director, UN Women, NYC
Activist & Advocate for Women’s Rights, Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, USD
Adopt a Special Kid Agency | Children with disability, San Francisco, CA
Afghan Amity Society, Laguna Beach, CA
Founder and CEO, Nile Sisters Development Initiative, San Diego, CA
Women Peacemakers Program, USD
Unity Coalition Against Trafficking San Diego & Baja CA
Pro bono legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations, CA
Provost of Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California San Diego, CA
U.S. Doctors for Africa, CA
Healing Through Art, CA
Americas Foundation, Building schools at U.S./Mexico Borders, CA
CA State Senator | City’s Equal Opportunity Ordinance | incl. LGBT, CA
Executive Director, Survivors of Torture International, San Diego, CA
La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary, Foundation Vice Chair and Trustee, San Diego, CA
US Congressman | Social Programmes for the Homeless & Vets, San Diego, CA
CA State Senator, Ret | Co-Founder, Fronteras de las Californias
Ilan-Lael Foundation, Creativity as Catalyst for Positive Change
Founder, San Diego Chapter of Amnesty International, CA
About Us
The World Needs the UN. The UN Needs You. The San Diego Chapter (UNA-USA San Diego), established in 1946, promotes engagement with the United Nations by translating its global initiatives into our local context.
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