Bremen Solidarity Prize
The Bremen Solidarity Prize has been awarded every two years by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen since 1988 . It is intended to honor the commitment of people and groups who campaign for freedom and self-determination and for overcoming injustice in the North-South relationship and the consequences of colonialism and racism . The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. In addition to the prize money, a modern sculpture created by the Bremen artist Bernd Altenstein will also be presented. The sculpture symbolically expresses the Bremen town musicians as acting in solidarity.
The prize was first awarded to Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela in 1988. The award ceremony will take place with the mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in the Upper Hall of the historic Bremen Town Hall. Well-known personalities from the fields of politics, science or the media are won over for the laudation. The award is also associated with the intention that the public created in this way can make a contribution to the protection of the award winner.
The Senate is supported by an independent board of trustees in selecting the winners. This is made up of recognized development policy experts and personalities who, as public figures, advocate the issues.
Prize winners
- 1988 Winnie and Nelson Mandela from South Africa .
- 1990 Bishop Medardo E. Gómez and the human rights organization Comité Cristiano Pro Desplazados de El Salvador (CRIPDES) from El Salvador .
- 1992 David Copenawa from the Yanomami people in Brazil .
- 1994 Aung San Suu Kyi from Myanmar ( Burma ).
- 1996 Han Dongfang from the People's Republic of China .
- 1998 Nadjet Bouda from Algeria , Hetti Samanmali from Sri Lanka , and Brigitte Erler from Germany .
- 2000 Marguerite Barankitse from Burundi and Melanie Ntahongendera from Rwanda .
- 2002 the Palestinian Sumaya Farhat-Naser and the Israeli Gila Svirsky .
- In 2004 the Argentinian Elsa de Oesterheld , representative of the mothers and relatives of disappeared Germans and people of German origin in Argentina, and Kuno Hauck from Nuremberg , representative of the coalition against impunity .
- 2006 Ana del Carmen Martínez , spokeswoman for the Afro-Colombian Peace Congregation, and the Franciscan Sister Carolina Pardo Jaramillo .
- 2009 Immaculée Birhaheka , Congolese human rights activist
- 2011 Maung Thura (called Zarganar) from Myanmar ( Burma ), critic of the military junta in his home country.
- 2013 Aminatou Haidar from Morocco campaigns for human rights and political self-determination in Western Sahara .
- 2015 Esther Mujawayo-Keiner , co-founder of the Rwandan organization AVE-GA-AGAHOZO ("Association of the Widows of Genocide 1994") and trauma therapist for refugees in Rwanda and Germany.
- 2017 Stella Agara as an activist from Kenya for worldwide tax justice and against tax avoidance, engagement for Youth Led Development .
- 2019 Martín and Víctor Fernández Guzmán , human rights lawyers from Honduras , together with the organization they co-founded MADJ - Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y la Justicia (Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice).
literature
- Hans-Heinrich Bass , Markus Wauschkuhn and Karl Wohlmuth : Human rights, employment relationships and trade unions in China - international perspectives , published on the occasion of the award of the 5th Bremen Solidarity Prize to Han Dongfang, reports from the China Research Department at the Institute for World Economy and International Management at the University of Bremen , No. 6, 1996, ISSN 0947-7977 (includes, among other things, the laudation by Dieter Schulte as well as a biography of Han Dongfang and an interview with him in German translation)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ rathaus.bremen.de, Bremen Solidarity Prize ( Memento from July 16, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Senate Press Office - 16th Bremen Solidarity Prize goes to human rights lawyers from Honduras. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .