The 2013 Isa-beg Ishaković award for Patriotism was presented to Sanela Diana Jenkins: “We honor the global humanitarian Sanela Diana Jenkins with the award in the field of Patriotism—a person whose love of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina state deserves more than awards and whose humanism knows no bounds.”
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New York, Oct. 18, 2012—On Monday, Sir Elton John continued his humanitarian efforts to raise money for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and awareness programs across the United States, the Americas, and the Caribbean at the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF)’s 11th annual benefit An Enduring Vision held at Cipriani Wall Street (55 Wall Street). American Airlines, The Kraft Group, and Wells Fargo served as the Presenting Sponsors of the benefit, and the star-studded evening raised $2 million for the Foundation.
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In 2009, Diana Jenkins received the prestigious Mostar Peace Connection Prize for her international humanitarian efforts. The prize was created to encourage the endeavors of all those who promote the ideas of peace, democracy and preservation of human rights by their attitude and public engagement.
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The 2013 Computerworld Laureate Ceremony and Awards Gala recognized The International Criminal Court Forum, a Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, naming it a Computerworld Laureate in the “World Good” category for its work advancing human rights and international criminal law through digital media.
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Sanela Diana Jenkins was awarded a prize for one of the “World’s Top Three Justice Innovations of 2012” by The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL). Her project, the Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum (ICCforum.com ), was praised as a way to facilitate communication between the legal community, the world community, and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Diana Jenkins’ philanthropy is shaped by her personal experiences as a political refugee, a witness to the atrocities of war and a mother trying to raise healthy children. Diana is a unique philanthropist because she understands the need for immediate assistance in places ravaged by natural disasters or civil war, but she also appreciates the long-term needs for rebuilding civic institutions and the rule of law.
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The Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project was established at the UCLA School of Law in 2009 to advance the cause of human rights and international justice around the world. The Project engages in a range of activities, continuously identifying and pursuing the most promising opportunities for addressing human rights issues around the globe, while at the same time advancing understanding about human rights through interdisciplinary studies.
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In May 2014, celebrities, philanthropists, and conservationists joined forces to raise over $2 million dollars for the Elephant Crisis Fund. The Fund, a joint initiative of Save the Elephants and the Wildlife Conservation Network, will be used to save elephants from the current ivory poaching crisis by funding on-the-ground projects that stop poaching, trafficking, and demand for ivory.
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War and rape have always arrived together, leaving shattered lives in their wake. Today, in Eastern Congo, rape is being used as more than a sick prize for the victor. In rural villages of the Fizi and Mwenga territories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rape has been reinvented as a primary weapon of war.
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In the Congo, mass rape is used as a weapon of war to destroy villages. Sanela Diana Jenkins has a novel approach to try to heal villages as a whole where the women have been sexually attacked. It’s called the Restore the Villages Project.
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