Homo Homini Prize

The Homo-Homini Prize has been awarded every spring in Prague since 1994 by the largest Czech non-governmental organization Člověk v tísni ( People in Need ). This organization, founded in 1992, is active in more than 40 countries with a focus on humanitarian and development aid and support for human rights . The prize is awarded for outstanding services to human rights, democracy and the non-violent resolution of political conflicts and was presented personally by the former dissident and president Václav Havel until his death .

Award winners

The following people have been awarded the Homo Homini Prize:

• In 1994 Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow , Russian politician , human rights activist and dissident received the award for the decisive mobilization of the public opposition to the First Chechen War . From 1990 to 2003 he was a member of parliament and from 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the human rights commission in the cabinet of the Russian president.
• In 1997 Szeto Wah from Hong Kong received an award.
• In 1998 the Homo-Homini Prize went to Ibrahim Rugova , the former President of Kosovo , for his non-violent opposition to the Yugoslav regime.
• In 1999 the prize was awarded to Oswaldo Payá , the representative of the Cuban Christian opposition movement and one of the initiators of the Varela project, a referendum for the legal definition of human rights and free elections.
• In 2000, the Myanmar student leader and long-term political prisoner Min Ko Naing received the award .
• In 2001 the award went to Zackie Achmat for his commitment to lowering AIDS drug prices to fight AIDS in third world countries .
• In 2002, three Vietnamese human rights defenders received the award : Thích Huyền Quang and Thích Quảng Độ , both Buddhist monks, and Nguyễn Văn Lý , a Roman Catholic priest.
• In 2003, the Serbian human rights activist Nataša Kandić was honored for the founding of the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Belgrade in 1992, a non-governmental organization for the investigation and investigation of war crimes during the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
• In 2004, the award went to Gheorghe Briceag , a former prisoner of the Soviet - gulags , human rights activists and defenders of other former Gulag prisoners in Moldova .
• In 2005 the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bjaljazki was honored for his organization Vyazna, which was founded in 1996 to support political prisoners and their families.
• In 2006, the Russian Swetlana Gannuschkina received the award for her long-term commitment to the refugee organization.
• In 2007 the award was given to the Myanmar activists Su Su Nway , Phyu Phyu Thin and Nilar Thein . Su Su Nway and Phyu Phyu Thin are members of the National League for Democracy . Su Su Nway was the first to turn against forced labor in 2004. Phyu Phyu runs a clinic in Rangoon to care for AIDS patients who have been turned away in public hospitals. Nilar Thein, a member of the '88 Generation Students' organization, was imprisoned in 1991 and 1998 for her democratic activities. Most recently because she hit a police officer who tried to get in her way during an anti-government demonstration organized by her.
• In 2008 Liu Xiaobo , who later won the Nobel Prize, and symbolically all of the Charter 08 signatories, received this award.
• In 2009 the Iranian student leaders Majid Tavakoli and Abdollah Momeni and with them the Iranian student movement were symbolically honored.
• In 2010 the award went to the Kyrgyz human rights activist Azimzhan Askarov, who was imprisoned for life .
• In 2011 the award was given to the underground coordination group of Syrian doctors and medical workers of the coordinating committee of the Doctors of Damascus , member of the local coordinating committee .
• In 2012, the Azerbaijani human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev was awarded the prize for his personal courage and exceptional commitment to defending the persecuted. Intigam Aliyev submitted nearly 200 cases to the European Court of Human Rights . He has won numerous cases relating to the right to vote, freedom of assembly and speech, and the right to a fair trial. He has also provided legal assistance to those persecuted for participating in peaceful protests, exposing corruption and publishing critical articles.
• In 2013 the award was given to Sapijat Magomedova , a young lawyer from Dagestan .
• In 2014, Souad Nawfal , a teacher and activist, received the award for her perseverance and bravery, regardless of her own safety, in her fight against the injustices of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and the so-called Islamic State . She became famous in the summer of 2013 after her daily protests for two and a half months against the behavior of the Syrian ISIS. Her struggle for freedom and justice began when she turned against the suppression and injustices of the Assad government. She helped internally displaced persons and continued to fight for freedom after she was released.
• In 2015, the Homo Homini Prize went to the eleven of the 75 formerly imprisoned dissidents who remained in Cuba and who were released in 2010 due to international pressure and pressured to leave the country. Her struggle to regain democracy in her country is honored.
• In 2016 the Committee for the Prevention of Torture received the Homo-Homini Award. The Russian non-governmental organization supports victims of torture.
• In 2017, the award went to the Vietnamese blogger Phạm Đoan Trang .
• In 2018 Francisca Ramírez received the award. She is the leader of a Nicaraguan democracy movement.

Web links

• Homo Homini Award Official website of the People in Need organization (clovekvtisni.cz, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Previous Recipients of the Homo Homini Award ( English ) In: clovekvtisni.cz . People in Need. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
2. ↑ Homo homini awards recognize the work of three vietnamese activists ( English ) In: radio.cz . Accessed December 2012.
3. ↑ Homo Homini prize to go to Dagestan lawyer Sapijat Magomedova ( Memento from July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )