At AIUSA’s 2007 Annual General Meeting a number of special guests, including former prisoner of conscience Saad Ibrahim, an internationally respected advocate of democracy and intellectual freedom in Egypt, and Jennifer Latheef, a photojournalist and an opposition political activist in the Maldives, were honoured. Lydia Cacho Ribeiro was also honoured as the 2007 Ginetta Sagan Award recipient due to her work on women’s and children’s rights.
