October 7th 2007:

A Day to Remember Anna Politkovskaya

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the murder of the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

We the undersigned are all supporters of the human rights organisation RAW in WAR (Reach all women in WAR), and this weekend we will be making the first Anna Politkovskaya Award to recognise women who are defending human rights in zones of war and conflict.

We call on the Russian Government to bring to justice, in full conformity with international standards, both those who killed Anna Politkovskaya and those who have ordered her murder.

We also call on the world's leaders to pledge to do everything in their power to protect the journalists and human rights defenders who work in areas of war and conflict, and who speak out on behalf of the victims, as Anna did.

We owe it to the memory of Anna to protect the very few who still speak out, on behalf of those to whom nobody wants to listen.

signed

MAIREAD MAGUIRE

BETTY WILLIAMS

JODY WILLIAMS

SHIRIN EBADI

WANGARI MAATHAI

RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

ELENA BONNER

TATIANA YANKELEVICH

PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL

HAROLD PINTER

THE HON ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY

ANDRE GLUCKSMANN

GLORIA STEINEM

SERGEY KOVALYOV

TERRY WAITE

SUSAN SARANDON

ALEXEI SIMONOV

GILLIAN SLOVO

BARONESS KENNEDY OF THE SHAWS

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

MAREK EDELMAN

ELISABETH REHN

MARIANE PEARL

ASMA JAHANGIR

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN

ARIEL DORFMAN

VANESSA REDGRAVE

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

EVE ENSLER

JOHN SWEENEY

JONATHAN SCHELL

NOAM CHOMSKY

MARINA LITVINENKO

LYUDMILLA ALEKSEEVA

DESMOND O'MALLEY

ANNE NIVAT

VICTOR FAINBERG

LORD JUDD

LORD REA

LORD GIDDENS

LORD AHMED

BARONESS WILLIAMS OF CROSBY

BARONESS MEACHER

PROFESSOR YAKIN ERTURK

ELENA KUDIMOVA

NATASHA KANDIC

CAROLINE McCORMICK

SISTER MARYA GRATHWOHL

HEIDI BRADNER

MEGLENA KUNEVA

ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

ESTHER CHAVEZ

JOHN D. PANITZA

DUBRAVKA UGRESIC

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVAL

VICTOR NAVASKY

AIDAN WHITE

HOLLY NEAR

ELIZABETH FRANK