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Cuba Encuentro
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11/07/2011

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, the 2002 recipient of NDI’s W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award and the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was recently invited to the High-Level Human Rights conference in Brussels by European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek. In 1997, Payá founded the Varela Project, which uses nonviolent means to promote human rights. He is also coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano de Liberación).

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