Martin Ennals Award

The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (abbreviation MEA , German Martin Ennals Human Rights Award ) is an award for people and organizations that are particularly committed to protecting human rights in their countries. The award has been presented by representatives of ten of the most important human rights organizations since 1993. It is named after the British human rights activist Martin Ennals , who was Secretary General of Amnesty International from 1968 to 1980 . Until 2017, the prize was awarded annually in October in Geneva . Since 2019, the award ceremony has taken place in February. (Due to this change of date, the 2018 award ceremony was canceled.) The prize money is 20,000 Swiss francs .

Selection committee

The prize is awarded by the Martin Ennals Foundation ( Martin Ennals Foundation ). The selection committee consists of representatives from the following human rights organizations:

• Amnesty International ,
• Human Rights Watch ,
• Human Rights First ,
• International League for Human Rights ,
• World Organization Against Torture ,
• International Legal Commission ,
• Diaconal work Germany,
• International Service for Human Rights ,
• Front line defenders
• HURIDOCS .

Award winners

1994: Harry Wu (China) 1995: Asma Jahangir (Pakistan) 1996: Clement Nwankwo (Nigeria) 1997: Bishop Samuel Ruiz García (Mexico) 1998: Eyad El Sarraj (Palestine) 1999: Natasha Kandic (Yugoslavia) 2000: Immaculée Birhaheka (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 2001: Peace Brigades International (Colombia) 2002: Jacqueline Moudeina (Chad) 2003: Alirio Uribe Muñoz (Colombia) 2004: Lida Jusupowa (Russia) 2005: Aktham Naisse (Syria) 2006: Akbar Gandschi (Iran) and Arnold Tsunga (Zimbabwe) 2007: Pierre Claver Mbonimpa (Burundi) and Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham Sritharan (Sri Lanka)

2008: Mutabar Tadjibaeva (Uzbekistan) 2009: Emad Baghi (Iran) 2010: Muhannad Al-Hassani (Syria) 2011: Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (Uganda) 2012: Luon Sovath (Cambodia) 2013: Joint Mobile Group (Russia) 2014: Alejandra Ancheita (Mexico) 2015: Ahmed Mansoor (United Arab Emirates) 2016: Ilham Tohti (People's Republic of China) 2017: Mohamed Zaree (Egypt) 2019: Abdul Aziz Muhamat (Sudan) 2020: Huda al-Sarari (Yemen)

See also

• List of human rights awards

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who was Martin Ennals ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. Martin Ennals Award. Retrieved March 2, 2016. 
2. ↑ Change to Annual Award Cycle , January 21, 2018, accessed February 26, 2020.
3. ^ Martin Ennals Foundation website
4. ↑ Martin Ennals Award ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website. Retrieved March 2, 2016. 
5. ↑ Titi-Fontaine, Sandra (October 17, 2011) "I don't know if I'll still be alive tomorrow" Swissinfo.ch . Retrieved March 2, 2016.
6. ↑ "Nobel Prize for Human Rights" - price for activists from the Emirates taz.de . Retrieved March 2, 2016.
7. ↑ http://www.martinennalsaward.org/?page_id=548
8. ↑ https://info.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/blog/mohamed-zaree-erhaelt-martin-ennals-award
9. ↑ Martin Ennals Award 2020 finalists , accessed on February 26, 2020.