Amnesty International Human Rights Award

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The Amnesty International Human Rights Prize is awarded every two to three years by the German section of Amnesty International . The aim of this award is to recognize the work of human rights activists and to make them known to a wider public. The award is endowed with ten thousand euros, but what is more important for the award winners is usually the additional protection and new contacts through the media and international public attention associated with the award. In contrast to the Nobel Peace Prize, for example, the award is mainly given to previously unknown organizations, some of which work underground for political reasons and whose employees are themselves threatened by the system.

Award winners

  1. 1998: twelve human rights defenders who stand for the global human rights movement: Binta Jammeh-Sidibe ( Gambia ), Andreas Kossi Ezuke ( Togo ), Yanette Bautista ( Colombia ), Heberth Hernando Ruiz Ríos (Colombia), Waldo Albarracín ( Bolivia ), Wei Jingsheng ( PR China ), Medha Patkar ( India ), Mukhtar Pakpahan ( Indonesia ), Akın Birdal ( Turkey ), Juri Schadrin ( Russia ), Mohamed Mandour ( Egypt ), Karima Hammache ( Algeria )
  2. 2001: the Turkish lawyer Eren Keskin
  3. 2003: the Russian human rights activist Swetlana Gannuschkina
  4. 2005: Monira Rahman from Bangladesh , who works for the victims of acid attacks
  5. 2008: the Zimbabwean human rights organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and its founder Jenni Williams
  6. 2011: Abel Barrera Hernández from Mexico and the Tlachinollan human rights center he founded
  7. 2014: Alice Nkom from Cameroon and the organization Association pour la Défense des Droits des Homosexuel (le) s (ADEFHO)
  8. 2016: Henri Tiphagne , lawyer and founder of the Indian human rights organization People's Watch
  9. 2018: Dr. Mona Hamed, Dr. Aida Seif al-Dawla, Dr. Magda Adly and Dr. Suzan Fayad, doctors and founders of the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and Violence (Cairo, Egypt); the center has continued to exist underground since the military shutdown in February 2017, two of the four award winners were banned from leaving the country shortly before the award ceremony, while their colleague Dr. Taher Mokhtar accepted the award on behalf of the company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 7th Amnesty Human Rights Prize goes to Alice Nkom from Cameroon , accessed on November 22, 2013
  2. ^ Amnesty Human Rights Award 2016 goes to Henri Tiphagne from India , accessed on May 26, 2016
  3. ↑ Amnesty Human Rights Award 2018 on the Amnesty International Germany website. Retrieved April 18, 2018.