Attitude receives the Reykjavik Human Rights Award

The position, a prison company for improved prison and improvement, received the Reykjavik Human Rights Award today. Mayor Heida Björg Hilmisdóttir awarded the award at a ceremony in Höfði today.

« This is a confirmation of endless work for human rights marginalized groups and their family, » Guðmundur Ingi Þóroddsson, chairman of the company, told mbl.is.

« ROur adds and marginalized groups must be heard to be heard to Society is ready to welcome individuals back into the community after serving, « Guðmundur aasked about the status of current and former prisoners. He says everything is on the right track but many things that could be fixed.

About the future at the organization, Guðmundur says, « We intend to continue to tell what is true. None is the worst thing he has done. »

Previously unseen documentary of Litla-Hraun shown next week

« We have a conference next Thursday, May 22, at Reykjavik Natura, the old Loftleid hotel. There will be a program from 8:30 to 17.

« There will be a foreign peer, Leonard Pickard, who received a double life sentence in the United States but was reached. He comes and tells his story, » adds Gudmundur.

It will also be shown a documentary that was recorded twenty-three years ago inside Litla-Hraun and has never been shown before. Guðmundur still says there is a ticket to the conference on the association’s website.

Advocates of people who had no voice in the community

The mayor said in a speech that the NGO had done pioneering work in the interests of improvement, rehabilitation and the return of individuals into the community. It would be truly human rights that people who break and move out of the straight track have no way back.

« For over 20 years, the organization has guarded people who did not have a great voice in the community and been their advocate, » said Heida Björg.

The selection committee’s arguments say that the award will be a position for work for the benefit of prisoners and their relatives. At the same time, the organization regularly visits all the prisons in the country, restrained and is a powerful advocate of a group that did not have a strong voice. They also provide a legal administration and participate in public debate in a professional and responsible way. The holder of the prizes will receive a salary of ISK 600,000.

Katarzyna Beata Kubis received at the same act of aThe City of Reykjavik Access Authorization for Information Square designed for guardians and relatives of disabled children.