New York: Prominent legal activist Amrit Singh has been honoured for her groundbreaking work in the field of human rights law, along with a number of other noted Indian-Americans including U.S. Congressman Ami Bera and USAID chief Rajiv Raj Shah.
Singh, 43, the youngest daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism at the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative.
She received the India Abroad Publisher's Special Award for Excellence 2012, at the event organized by 'India Abroad' on Friday to honour Indian-American achievers in a wide range of professions.
Singh's report 'Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Torture and Extraordinary Rendition', published by the Open Society Justice Initiative, received widespread attention in the international media for its close look at the global torture network, after its release in February.
The report authored by Singh says 54 countries including Pakistan, assisted the US in its war against al-Qaida by hosting CIA prisons on their territories and detaining, interrogating and "torturing" terror suspects.
Congressman Bera, only the third Indian-American to be elected to the US Congress, was honoured as the India Abroad Person of the Year for Political Achievement 2012.
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