Graz Human Rights Prize
The Graz Human Rights Prize is a human rights prize donated by the City of Graz at the suggestion of Mayor Siegfried Nagl .
The prize is planned every two years with 7000 euros in the budget of the city of Graz and is generally awarded every two years. Proposals for the award can be made to the Graz Office for Peace and Development and must be submitted there in writing. The jury is advised by an advisory board and decides on the award of the prize by majority vote; in the event of a tie, the prize is divided.
Prize winners
- 2007
- Daniela Grabovac, founder and main person in charge of "Helping Hands Graz"
- Agnes Truger, project officer of the Welthaus Diocese Graz-Seckau
- Kurt David Brühl, Honorary President of the Israelite Cultural Community Graz, Councilor of Commerce and Consul
- 2009
- Prize winner for the commitment to human rights international: Hans Hesselmann , head of the human rights office in Nuremberg
- Prize winners for the commitment to human rights in Graz: Representation network, guardianship, patient advocacy, residents' association, Styrian branch
- 2011
- Father Berno Rupp
- Registered nurse Nomawethu Kelbitsch
- 2013
- Susanna Ecker, lawyer; for "commitment to the legal enforcement of human rights of people in disadvantaged living conditions"
- Helmut Wlasak , judge; especially for his "drug and addiction prevention for young people in the project 'Mc Clean'"
- Heimo Halbrainer, Club Clio; for many years of "critical history mediation and remembrance work by sharpening responsibility for the collective past"
- 2015
- Günther Ebenschweiger, Head of the Jakomini Police Inspectorate, for developing various prevention programs
- Ruth Seipel, founder of the Mentorus association, for working with asylum seekers
- Edwin Benko for his work after the rampage in Graz
- 2017
- Aslı Erdoğan , Turkish writer and journalist
- Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Styria
- Homeless Street Soccer World Cup , namely Harald Schmied and Gilbert Prilasnig
- 2019
- Edith Abawe, Infocafe Palaver women service
- Karl-Heinz Herper, retired city councilor D.
- Peter Krasser , " School of Ethiopia "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award of the Graz Human Rights Prize 2015 . Retrieved March 23, 2015.
- ↑ Friedensbüro Graz: Graz Human Rights Prize ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 27, 2010)
- ↑ Friedensbüro Graz: gmrp2007 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. (accessed on February 27, 2010)
- ↑ Friedensbüro Graz: gmrp2009 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2015 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. (accessed on February 27, 2010)
- ↑ Graz Human Rights Prize 2011 awarded Kleine Zeitung, November 15, 2011
- ↑ Graz Human Rights Prize goes to three winners. Kleine Zeitung , December 4, 2013, archived from the original on December 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Graz Human Rights Award 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 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. . Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- ↑ Graz Human Rights Prize for Asli Erdogan , steiermark.orf.at, accessed on November 2, 2017.
- ↑ Graz Human Rights Prize 2019 - Peace Office Graz , accessed on December 14, 2019.
