WOLA and Duke University invite you to attend:
The 2014 WOLA-Duke Human Rights Book Award Honoring Óscar Martínez for The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Please join WOLA and Mr. Martínez for a reading of his book and Q & A with the author and WOLA experts
A reception will precede the award presentation and book reading.
To RSVP, click here or email lweiss@wola.org.
Óscar Martínez's book, The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail, has been named the winner of the 2014 WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award.
Martínez writes for Elfaro.net, an award-winning El Salvador-based investigative journalism site. The Beastchronicles the harrowing stories garnered from Martínez’s two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border. Telling compelling stories with powerful prose, Martinez gives readers a rare glimpse into the horrors that millions of migrants experience on their journey to el Norte. Everyday thousands of migrants are extorted, kidnapped, and raped as they migrate. This book has a timely message as Congress debates new legislation regarding border security and aid to Central America.
Praise from the WOLA-Duke Book Award Committee:
“This is investigative reporting of the highest order on one of the major human rights issues of our day.” – Alex Wilde, American University
“[Martínez is] an intrepid young journalist who risked his life many times to make this book possible.” – Leonor Blum, head judge, Notre Dame of Maryland University
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About the Award:
First awarded in 2008, the WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award honors the best current, non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The books are evaluated by a panel of expert judges drawn from academia, journalism, and public policy circles. Click here for more information.
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