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The awards aim to highlight the work of journalists, human rights defenders, women, girls and LGBTQI+ rights defenders. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year’s recipients were:</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Filipina journalist Maria Ressa: Justice For Journalists Award</li>\r\n \t<li>iAct, an organisation that supports survivors of genocide in refugee camps: Justice For Survivors Award</li>\r\n \t<li>Belarusian human rights group Viasna: Justice For Democracy Defenders Award</li>\r\n \t<li>Dr Josephine Kulea of the Kenyan-based Samburu Girls Foundation: Justice For Women Award.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1417054\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1429135872.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" /> Amal George and George Clooney speak onstage during the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. 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But I think it’s an honour for South Africa, for our judges and for all the people who fought for justice. I think of people like Griffiths Mxenge, who was assassinated and was a wonderful lawyer, Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo. I’m the living survivor of that generation of freedom fighters who believed in the possibilities of law, who fought for justice.” </span>\r\n\r\nhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-12-amal-and-george-clooney-foundation-honours-justice-albie-sachs-for-courageous-work-fighting-for-justice/\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/clooney-foundation-for-justice-inaugural-albie-awards-inside/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1416831\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1429130602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" /></a> Honouree Justice Albie Sachs and former first lady Michelle Obama. 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But I think it’s an honour for South Africa, for our judges and for all the people who fought for justice. I think of people like Griffiths Mxenge, who was assassinated and was a wonderful lawyer, Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo. I’m the living survivor of that generation of freedom fighters who believed in the possibilities of law, who fought for justice.” </span>\r\n\r\nhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-12-amal-and-george-clooney-foundation-honours-justice-albie-sachs-for-courageous-work-fighting-for-justice/\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1416831\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/clooney-foundation-for-justice-inaugural-albie-awards-inside/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1416831\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1429130602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" /></a> Honouree Justice Albie Sachs and former first lady Michelle Obama. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Albie Awards)[/caption]\r\n<h4><b>A-listers</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sachs received the award from Michelle Obama, former first lady of the United States. The event was </span><a href=\"https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/albie-awards-george-clooney-amal-clooney\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attended by celebrities</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including Meryl Streep, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gayle King, Julia Roberts and, of course, George and Amal Clooney, the foundation’s co-founders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Clooney Foundation for Justice was founded to hold perpetrators of grave injustices to account while helping victims in their fight for justice. The foundation, which operates in more than 40 countries, gathers evidence of human rights abuses and provides legal support to victims. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice because we believe in creating a world where human rights are protected and no one is above the law. We believe that justice, like war, must be waged; it doesn’t just happen on its own,” state the Clooneys on the </span><a href=\"https://cfj.org/about/our-story/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">foundation’s website</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. </span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<h4><b>Track record</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sachs’ achievements embody the founding principles of the foundation. The South African activist, lawyer, writer and retired judge began a career in human rights activism in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign while studying towards a law degree at the University of Cape Town.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He then began his practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar, aged 21, with much of his work dedicated to defending those charged under the apartheid regime’s racist and oppressive laws. Sachs was detained for 168 days without trial. He went into exile in 1966. He became a victim of a car bomb planted by South African security services in Maputo. He lost his right arm and vision in his left eye in the attack. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sachs was appointed by former president Nelson Mandela to serve on the first Constitutional Court Bench. He helped draw up South Africa’s Constitution before he hung up his gown in 2009 after a 15-year career. </span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1417044\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1417044\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Albie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"802\" /> Albie Sachs with the eponymous award, the morning after the awards ceremony, New York, 30 September 2022 (Daily Maverick)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I feel very joyous that they [the Clooneys] have chosen me, as a South African lawyer … to call the awards the ‘Albies’; my head is still spinning at that idea,” Sachs told the SABC. “There are a lot of other Albies … They might be smiling, knowing that their name is associated with people who have invested themselves in the struggle for justice.” </span><b>DM/ML</b>",
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Amal George and George Clooney speak onstage during the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Albie Awards)
Maria Ressa speaks onstage at the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Albie Awards)
Aloe Blacc, Amal Clooney and George Clooney speak onstage during the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Albie Awards)
Honoree Justice Albie Sachs and Former First Lady Michelle Obama appear onstage at the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Albie Awards)
(L-R) Alina Stefanovic, Sarah-Christine Dallain, Oumda Alfateh Younous Haroun, Wanjiru Wahome, George Clooney, Amal Clooney, Maria Ressa, Dr. Josephine Kulea and Justice Albie Sachs attend the Clooney Foundation For Justice Inaugural Albie Awards at New York Public Library on September 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Albie Awards)
Honouree Justice Albie Sachs and former first lady Michelle Obama. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Albie Awards)
Albie Sachs with the eponymous award, the morning after the awards ceremony, New York, 30 September 2022 (Daily Maverick)