SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Courageous Central American activist earns Gandhi-inspired Thakore Award.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 August 1998-SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY: Courageous Central American activist earns Gandhi-inspired Thakore Award (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:190898 Marta Gloria de la Vega Torres has been chosen for the 1998 Thakore Visiting Scholar Award at Simon Fraser University.

She is being honored for her life-long commitment to human rights, including courageous work with B.C.'s Christian Task Force on Central America. "Marta is one of the bravest people I have ever known," says Donald Grayston, coordinator of the Gandhi Project for SFU's institute for the humanities. "Although she and her family narrowly escaped death squads, she has returned to Guatemala many times, undercover, and in the face of great personal danger, in order to...

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