Lenin Raghuvanshi receives German award
Lenin Raghuvanshi, an Indian human-rights activist and partner of RCT, was in Germany on Friday to receive an award in the city of Weimar for his long fight on behalf of the dalits, or untouchables.
Lenin Raghuvanshi, founder of the People's Vigilance Committee
on Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh state, also campaigns on
behalf of women, children and indigenous peoples and counsels
victims of injustice.
Weimar's city council picked him in June as winner of the
eastern city's annual human rights prize, worth 2,500 euros (3,300
dollars) and invited him to Germany to receive it in person on 10th
of December International Human Rights Day.
In his spech thanking for the award, Raghuvanshi, the
40-year-old doctor, among other things said:
- It is a great and landmark honour for me, my colleagues at the
People‟s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), partner
organizations especially CRY, RCT, SDTT, Indo-German Society of
Remscheid to receive the the Human Rights Award of the City of
Weimar fighting for the dignity of the poor and "untouchables" of
India.