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Yoko Ono to Award Peace Grants
9-Oct-2006
Written by: Jeannine Coppola
John Lennon Peace Awards to be granted on October 9th.
BBC News reports that Yoko Ono is to award two peace grants for $50,000 on October 9, 2006, her late husband John Lennon's birthday. The awards are to be presented to Medecins Sans Frontieres, a global medical group, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, a rights campaign organization. According to Reuters news agency, Ono claimed both groups worked "selflessly and tirelessly towards establishing a more peaceful planet", and that they "look beyond today's conflicts and destruction and envision a positive future for your society."
The grants will be presented at Hofdi House, Reykjavik, the former site of the 1986 summit between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace was founded in 2002. Memorable past recipients of the awards include Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and Mordechai Vanunu, the famous scientist who was imprisoned in Israel for 18 years for leaking nuclear secrets.
John Lennon, who was killed on December 8, 1980, would have been 66 years old, on Monday.
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