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AWARDS DINNER Tuesday, November 1, 2005 Arcadian Court is located on the 8th Floor of the Simpson Tower in the Hudson's Bay Company flagship store in downtown Toronto at Bay and Queen Streets. Click here for a map and directions to Arcadian Court. |
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| Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and Awards Chairs Phillip Crawley, Patrick Gossage and Peter Herrndorf invite you to join us for the 2005 International Press Freedom Awards Dinner. The International Press Freedom Awards Dinner brings together Canada's media, business and professional communities in support of journalists who have put their lives on the line to defend freedom of expression. The CJFE International Press Freedom Awards, which were launched in 1998, have become the signature event of the organization's press freedom awareness activities in Canada. The gala dinner brings together corporate sponsors with an influential group of journalists, publishers, editors, media executives, business leaders and senior public servants. They all come together to honour the courage of journalists around the world and to let the community know they stand in defence of press freedom. The main event of the evening is the presentation of International Press Freedom Awards to two international journalists and one Canadian journalist who have shown great courage in the face of adversity in the course of their work. The event draws well-known public and political figures as keynote speakers, including former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Louise Arbour, former UN Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, author and journalist Michael Ignatieff, Governor-General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson, and Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, General Roméo Dallaire and Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi. This year we are pleased to announce that America's foremost investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will be our guest speaker. Sponsorship from dozens of companies,
including many of Canada's major media outlets, has made
the CJFE International Press Freedom Awards an important
fundraiser for the organization. The majority of the
event's proceedings go to the CJFE Journalists in Distress
Fund, which has granted thousands of dollars to persecuted
journalists in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe. |
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