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August 2006, Artists for Human Rights Concert – New York City. Artists for Human Rights held a human rights open air concert on historic Union Square in New York City. An audience of over 7000 was treated to rousing performances from a number of New York artists including Grammy award winning Richard Hartley’s Soul Resurrection Haven House Choir of Harlem. Performances were intermixed with jumbo screen displays of the human rights public service announcements produced by Youth for Human Rights International. Thousands cheered not only (omit the) individual performances but gave standing ovations to the public service announcements. Broadway performer, Stacy Francis, came home to New York for a grand finale performance that literally had thousands dancing on the square.
August 2006, Youth Summit at the United Nations on Making Human Rights a Global Reality –New York City. Artists for Human Rights participated in the Youth Summit on Human Rights held at the United Nations. The summit sponsored by Youth for Human Rights attracted ambassadors, consulates, human rights advocacies and youth leaders from every continent.
August 2006, Human Rights Hero Awards Ceremony – UN, New York City. In celebration of the Summit on Human Rights, Artists for Human Rights Founder, Anne Archer, presented Human Rights Hero Awards to youth leaders from around the world.
January 2007, Grammy Award winning Artists for Human Rights members, Robin and Carol Hogarth launch AFHR in South Africa, attracting a large number of African artists from all walks and disciplines, uniting with the common purpose of making human rights a global reality through the arts.
California School of the Arts: Martin Luther King Human Rights Hero Event – Valencia, California. In January 2007, Artists for Human Rights hosted an evening honoring the ground-breaking human rights work of the California School of Arts. The school has instituted art instruction and projects throughout the Southern California area in under-privileged and economic depressed areas, bringing the hope and inspiration of art where it is so desperately needed. The program has been such an unprecedented success that in areas where its art programs have been instituted, crime statistics have plummeted. The Dean of the School accepted Artists for Human Rights, Human Rights Hero Ward, fittingly in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday.