THIS YEAR ANCA EASTERN REGION WILL PRESENT THE FREEDOM AWARD TO SAMANTHA POWER

NOYAN TAPAN

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The Armenian National Committee of America, Eastern Region (ANCA-ER),
announced the honorees for its Second Annual Banquet and Awards
Program, to take place on September 13, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
in New York City. As announced previously, the ANCA-ER will present the
ANCA Freedom Award to Harvard University professor and human rights
activist Dr. Samantha Power. A leading voice on genocide awareness,
Power won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem From Hell: America
and the Age of Genocide. She teaches at the Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and
was a senior adviser to U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate
Barack Obama.