In south Indian state of Kerala Rights Activist nun chosen for Justice Iyer Human Rights Award

(21 Dec. 2006) : In south Indian state of Kerala, Sister Alice Lukose, the rights activist nun and founder of Women's Initiative Network (WIN), has been chosen as the recipient of the Justice Krishna Iyer Human Rights Award-2006. Sister Lukose has done remarkable work in the arena of welfare of women and children. Through the network of WIN, Sr. Lukose has empowered women and children of over 12,000 families belonging to the fishing community in Kerala's Alapuzha and Ernakulam districts during the last 16 years. However, her organization WIN has also undertaken thrift and credit operations, community health programmes, capacity building, seminars, training campaigns, on social and gender issues, etc. Sr. Lukose would be felicitated at a function to be held in Cochin, Kerala at Justice Iyer's residence on Friday December 22^nd. The award would be presented to her by none other than Justice Rajinder Sachar, well known Human Rights Activist and former Chief Justice of India who headed the recent Sachar committee.