Italian resistance movement, Amnesty International, Aurora Foundation
Spouse
Leonard Sagan (m. 1951–97)
Children
3
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grand Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
Ginetta Sagan (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
Born in Milan, Italy, Sagan lost her parents in her teenage years to the Black Brigades of Benito Mussolini. Like her parents, she was active in the Italian resistance movement, gathering intelligence and supplying Jews in hiding. She was captured and tortured in 1945, but escaped on the eve of her execution with the help of Nazi defectors.
After studying in Paris, she attended graduate school in child development in the US and married Leonard Sagan, a physician. The couple then resettled in Atherton, California, where Sagan founded the first chapter of Amnesty International in the western US. She later toured the region, helping to establish more than 75 chapters, and organized events to raise money for political prisoners.
In 1984, Sagan was elected the honorary chair of Amnesty International USA. US President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, and Italy later awarded her the rank of Grand Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). Amnesty International founded an annual Ginetta Sagan Award for activists in her honor.
GinettaSagan (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on...
from the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy and the 2016 GinettaSagan Award from Amnesty International. She received the Human Rights Award...
one of Carl Sagan's sons Françoise Sagan (1935–2004), French writer GinettaSagan (1925–2000), American human-rights activist Hedwig of Sagan (died 1390)...
Entertainment in 2021. In 2007, Lydia Cacho received the Amnesty International GinettaSagan Award for Women and Children's Rights, the IWMF (International Women's...
was a human and women's rights activist and the first winner of the GinettaSagan Fund Award in 1997. She was exiled from the country in March 1992 after...
she has helped over 6,000 rape survivors. Katsuva received the 2010 GinettaSagan Award for Women's and Children's Rights from Amnesty International USA...
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her to migrate, but she continues to live and work in Lahore. 2000 – GinettaSagan Award from Amnesty International 2001 – Millennium Peace Prize for Women...
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Rights of the Child. In 2008, Amnesty International awarded her its GinettaSagan Award for her work with the GCN. Makoni left Zimbabwe in 2008, following...
to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others.' The GinettaSagan award for Women Human Rights Defenders, established in 1997 "to help...
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their babies instead of abandoning the children. She was awarded the GinettaSagan Fund Award by Amnesty International in 1998 in recognition of her humanitarian...
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Business Administration from Kabul University. Amnesty International, GinettaSagan Fund Award (1999) Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children...
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Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and author, brain cancer. GinettaSagan, 75, Italian-American human rights activist. Ivan Stambolić, 63, Serbian...
the human rights of women and children for Amnesty International’s GinettaSagan Fund. On 9 November 2009, the Obama administration nominated Donahoe...
government of South Vietnam." After the war's end, Hentoff, Joan Baez, and GinettaSagan of Amnesty International repeatedly protested what he called "the horrifying...
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the eastern Congo. In 2002, Amnesty International accorded her its GinettaSagan Award for her work for women's rights and peace promotion. Mukanirwa...
from the Coalition of Services of the Elderly. She was also given the GinettaSagan Award by Amnesty International USA in 2022. Bigkay's honorific, Bai...
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