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November 2006, Artists for Human Rights Advisory Board member, Nazanin Boniadi, appears on Voice of America.  The international broadcast aired to 30,000,000 across the Middle East and Europe. Nazanin has spearheaded the fight for human rights education in the Middle East. Her popularity as a successful actress combined with her Iranian heritage brings together a formidable force for human rights education in an area of the world where it is so needed today.

October 2006, Artists for Human Rights Art Show – Los Angeles. Artists for Human Rights, Visual Artists brought its dramatic human rights art exhibition to the renowned Johnson Art Collection on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on the second leg of its international tour. The exhibit was hoisted by Anne Archer and Pomm and was attended by celebrities, media heads and artists from around the country. Art pieces each spoke to a human rights theme and enthralled the hundreds of attendees.

Human Trafficking Film Screening: Cargo: Innocence Lost and Forum – Hollywood, CA.  A public screening of this riveting film on human trafficking was presented at Celebrity Center International in January 2007. The screening was standing-room only and attended by the general public, artists, human rights activists and advocacy groups.

Following the screening, a panel discussion with open Q and A with the audience was held with experts from the FBI, ICE and Los Angeles and Orange Counties Human Trafficking Task Forces. Hundreds learned how human trafficking was going on right in their own back yards, and more importantly, concrete effective steps they could take in their own communities that would make a positive difference in combating this egregious human rights abuse.

September 2006, International Day of Peace Event was held in Glendale, CA

August 2006, Reception and International Human Rights Art Exhibition – New York City. Artists, dignitaries, United Nations representatives and hundreds of interested public attended a spectacular reception and human rights art exhibit at the famed Westwood Gallery in SoHo New York.  Each art piece was inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and evoked a tremendous audience response. Remarks from the curator, James Cavello as well as from Artists for Human Rights’ Founder, Anne Archer, joined those by the United Nations representative to further emphasize the value and need to engage artists in human rights education today.