Carter Menil Award

The Carter-Menil Award (also Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize ) was awarded by the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation, founded by Jimmy Carter and Dominique de Ménil from 1986 to 1994. The award was endowed with $ 100,000.

Award winners

• 1986 Yuri Orlov ( USSR / USA ) and the Group for Mutual Support (GAM) ( Guatemala )
• 1987 La Vicaría de la Solidaridad ( Chile )
• 1988 Sisulu family ( South Africa )
• 1989 B'Tselem and Al-Haq
• 1990 The Consejo de Comunidades Etnicas Runujel Junam (Guatemala) and The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) ( Sri Lanka )
• 1991 The University of Central America in honor of 6 Jesuit priests murdered here
• 1992 The Haitian Refugee Center (HRC) and The Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
• 1994 The people of Norway

literature

• David P. Forsythe: Encyclopedia of human rights , Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19533402-9 , pp. 251 ff. ( Available from Google Books ).

Web links

• A Special Prize of the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation. May 18, 1994

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rights Award For Israeli and Arab Groups , New York Times , November 16, 1989