Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights

The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights was launched in 1976 on the occasion of Bruno Kreisky's 65th birthday , as he did not want to accept personal gifts. Companies and institutions that were not part of the social democratic camp in Austria also took part in raising the foundation's capital.

Selection and jury

The prize is awarded every two years to individuals, groups, institutions or projects who have made a contribution to human rights . The prize money is between 7,000 and 30,000 euros.

The award winners are determined by the board of trustees of the Bruno Kreisky Foundation as well as by an international jury. These included Marion Countess Dönhoff , Willy Brandt , Olof Palme , Roland Dumas and their son Peter Kreisky .

1979 award winner

• Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez , Chile for the defense of human and trade union rights against the Pinochet regime,
• Issam Sartawi , Palestine, and Arie Lova Eliav, Israel, as pioneers of an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.
• Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo , Nicaragua
• Hildegard Goss-Mayr and Jean Goss , Austria and Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé , South Africa for their pacifist commitment and the East-West dialogue.
• Amnesty International , Austrian Section for their work for a political prisoner in Argentina.
• Committee for Human Rights, International Trade Union, Austria

Award winner 1981

• Trade union Histadrut , Israel, Simha Flapan , Israel and Raymonda Tawil , Israel for a project to promote the coexistence of Palestinian Arabs and Jews
• Nelson Mandela , South Africa, still imprisoned at the time.
• Domitila Barrios de Chungara , Bolivia as a leading women's rights activist
• Orlando Fals Borda , Colombia and Enrique Álvarez Córdoba , El Salvador for their fight against poverty and oppression
• Kim Chi-ha and Kim Dae Jung , South Korea, as leaders of the democracy and human rights movement in South Korea.
• Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle Européenne, France for its humanistic work and the support of scholars and intellectuals in communist Eastern Europe.
• Felix Ermacora , Austria and Rosa Jochmann , Austria for many years of work against fascism

Prize winner 1984

• Aid Committee for Nicaragua, Austria for the development work
• Volkshilfe Austria
• Austrian League for Human Rights for its contribution to spreading human rights awareness in Austria.
• Union of Concerned Scientists for the support of the peaceful dialogue between East and West
• Friends of Tel Aviv University , Austria
• Vicaría de la Solidaridad, Chile for the work in support of the political prisoners
• Oswald Amstler , Austria
• Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, USA for his call for nuclear disarmament.
• Muzaffer Saraç , Turkey for his work on human rights and democracy
• Shulamit Aloni , Israel as an activist of the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , Brazil for his courageous work under the Brazilian military dictatorship
• Prelate Leopold Ungar , Austria for humanitarian services in Austria
• Yolanda Urízar Martínez de Aguilar , Guatemala and Marianella García Villas , El Salvador for her work as human rights lawyer

1986 award winner

• Herbert Amry (posthumous), Austria
• Bruno Kreisky Archive Foundation, Austria
• Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation, Austria
• Austrian Institute for Peace Research and Education
• Committee of the Mothers of the Disappeared, El Salvador
• Human Rights Commission, Guatemala
• Austrian refugee aid
• International Historians of the Labor Movement (ITH)
• Jewish-Arab House in Beth Berl, Israel
• Erich Weisbier, Austria

1988 award winner

• Bishop Leonidas Proaño
• Frei Betto , Brazil
• Benazir Bhutto , Pakistan
• Latif Dori , Israel
• Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue founded by Israelis of Oriental Origin, Israel
• Anton Lubowski , Namibia
• Sergio Ramírez , Nicaragua
• Claudia Vilanek, Austria
• Friends of Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer, Austria
• Society for Austrian-Arab Relations, Austria
• Greenpeace , Austria
• Guatemalan human rights organization GAM, Guatemala
• International Helsinki Federation, Austria
• Justitia et Pax , Korean Commission
• Catholic Social Academy, Austria
• Committee for Social and Medical Aid for Palestinians, Austria
• Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam, Israel
• Unitad Nacional de Trabajadores, El Salvador
• Association for the History of the Labor Movement, Austria

1991 award winner

• Bärbel Bohley , Germany
• Congress of the South African Trade Unions, South Africa
• Yael Dayan , Israel
• Faisal Husseini , Palestine
• International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Israel / Palestine
• İnsan Hakları Derneği , Turkey
• Horst Kleinschmidt , South Africa / Great Britain
• Committee Cap Anamur , Germany
• Felicia Langer , Israel
• Paulinho Paiakan Kayapoo, Brazil
• Standing Committee for National Dialogue, El Salvador
• Poznań Human Rights Center, Poland
• Jalal Talabani , Syria / Iraq
• Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa , Colombia
• Anti-Apartheid Movement , Austria
• CARE , Austria
• Airport Social Service, Schwechat Airport, Austria
• Liesl Frankl , Austria
• Women's solidarity , Austria
• Society for Threatened Peoples, Austria
• Bishop Erwin Kräutler , Brazil
• Austrian Red Cross , Austria
• “Science shop” of the University of Linz, Austria
• Aid Committee for Refugees in Austria , Austria

Laureate 1993

• Abe J. Nathan , Israel
• The Canela indigenous people , Brazil
• Gani Fawehinmi , Nigeria
• Nicolae Gheorghe , Romania
• Christine Hubka and Gertrud Hennefeld, Austria
• Father Georg Sporschill , SJ, Romania

• Kemal Kurspahić and Zlatko Dizdarević , Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Tanja Petovar , Yugoslavia
• Memorial , CIS
• Rudolf Pichlmayr , Germany
• Martha Kyrle , Austria
• SOS Mitmensch , Austria
• Croatian-Muslim-Serbian Dialogue, Austria

1995 award winner

• Sumaya Farhat-Naser , Palestine
• Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow , Russia
• Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigeria
• Leyla Zana , Turkey

• Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran, Austria
• World University Service Graz , Austria
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights (BIM), Austria
• Refugee Aid Poysdorf , Austria
• Homeless asylum “ Die Gruft ”, Austria
• Father August Janisch , Austria

1997 award winner

• Abbas Amir Entezam , Iran
• Emily Lau , Hong Kong
• Uri Avnery , Israel
• Ivan Zvonimir Čičak , Croatian politician
• Otto Tausig , Austria
• Willi Resetarits , Austria
• Ernst Fürlinger for the Austrian Network Against Poverty

Prize winner 2000

• Radhika Coomaraswamy , Sri Lanka, UN special envoy on violence against women
• The Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Belgrade Human Rights Center, Yugoslavia
• NGO project "An anti-discrimination law for Austria"
• Karlheinz Böhm , Austria / Ethiopia

2002 award winner

• Cardinal Franz König , Senior Archbishop of Vienna, for his commitment to tolerance and dialogue
• Ute Bock , Vienna, for her commitment to refugees from all over the world
• Amira Hass , Tel Aviv / Ramallah , for her outstanding, independent, journalistic work;
• The Palestinian Center for Human Rights , in Ghaza City , for years of courageous commitment to upholding human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories

Award winner 2005

• Nadja Lorenz and Georg Bürstmayr from Vienna
• Andrej Sannikow from Belarus

2007 award winner

• Gao Zhisheng , China
• Jovan Mirilo , Serbia
• Civil courage and anti-racism work (ZARA), Austria
• Manfred Nowak , Austria
• Honorary award: Kofi Annan , former UN Secretary General

Award winner 2011

• Daniel Barenboim with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
• the aid organizations ASPIS , ESRA and Hemayat

Prize winner 2013

• Mazen Darwish , Syrian journalist and human rights activist
• Bogaletch Gebre , Ethiopian human rights activist
• Cecily Corti , founder of VinziRast in Vienna-Meidling

Award winner 2015

• Vian Dakhil , in the Iraqi parliament, representative of the Yazidis , eulogy: Violet Al Raheb
• Marijana Grandits , 2000–2012 member of the Human Rights Commission in the Ministry of the Interior of Austria, laudation: Manfred Nowak
• Neighbors in Vienna , for migrant families with Turkish, Arabic, Somali and Chechen mother tongues, laudation: Sandra Frauenberger

Award winner 2017

• Aslı Erdoğan

Prize winners 2019

• Amal Fathy
• Association Shalom Alaikum - Jewish Aid for Refugees
• Project “Know Your Rights” - Alexandra Stocker, David Weiss and others

See also

• Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book

Web links

• Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Prize on the Bruno Kreisky Foundation website

Footnotes

1. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Foundation: Biography of Bruno Kreisky ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights/deutsch/stiftung.htm
3. ^ Bruno Kreisky Foundation: Nomination
4. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Foundation: Award 2013 [1]
5. ↑ Excellent Turkish author Asli Erdogan. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 10, 2017, accessed on January 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ 18. Awarding of the Bruno Kreisky Prizes for services to human rights . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
7. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Prize goes to Egyptian activist . Article dated May 14, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019.