The Latvian PEN General Assembly awarded presented the 2024 Latvian PEN Prize to human rights defender Ieva Raubiško for her courage and selfless work in defending the rights of asylum seekers.
“No matter how complex our world currently is, all people deserve a liveable life. Human rights of the people on the move are violated, and also my rights to support and defend these people are restricted.”
Ieva Raubiško is a human rights defender who works with the people on the move in Latvia. A social anthropologist by education, Raubiško has been following the situation of irregular migrants and asylum seekers at the Latvia-Belarus border since July 2021. Having volunteered for the non-governmental organisation Gribu palīdzēt bēgļiem (GPB – I Want to Help Refugees) for several years, Raubiško joined GPB as a project coordinator/advocacy officer in September 2022.
