List of prizes for human rights, democracy and understanding
The list of prizes for human rights, democracy and understanding includes awards given for commitment to human rights , for democracy , understanding and tolerance . Media prices are mentioned separately.
Human rights awards
Human rights awards from international organizations
- Ludovic Trarieux Human Rights Prize (several European bar associations)
- Martin Ennals Award (several human rights organizations such as Amnesty International , Human Rights Watch , since 1994)
- Human Rights Award ( Rabbinal Center of Europe )
- Human Rights Award ( Reporters Without Borders )
- United Nations Human Rights Award ( United Nations , since 1968)
- Nansen Refugee Prize ( UN High Commissioner for Refugee Issues , since 1954)
- Sakharov Prize ( European Parliament , since 1985)
- Václav Havel Human Rights Prize ( Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Charter 77 Foundation , since 2013)
Human rights awards from national organizations and donors
Germany
- Amnesty international human rights award (German section of Amnesty international , since 1998)
- Carl von Ossietzky Medal ( International League for Human Rights (Berlin) , since 1962)
- Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and Rule of Law ( Federal Foreign Office , French Foreign Ministry, since 2016)
- Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal
- European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma ( Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma and Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation , since 2007)
- Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize ( Center against Expulsions , since 2003)
- Fritz Bauer Prize ( Humanist Union , since 1968)
- Ingeborg Drewitz Prize (Berlin State Association of the Humanist Union, since 1987)
- International Nuremberg Human Rights Prize (City of Nuremberg , since 1995)
- Karl Hermann Flach Prize ( Friedrich Naumann Foundation (1976–2000), Karl Hermann Flach Foundation , since 2000)
- Lew Kopelew Prize for Human Rights ( Lew Kopelew Forum , since 1999)
- Marburg beacon for social civil rights (since 2005)
- Human rights award of the German Association of Judges ( German Association of Judges , since 1991)
- Human Rights Prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation ( Friedrich Ebert Foundation )
- Human rights award from the Gerhart and Renate Baum Foundation
- Human rights award of the society for the protection of civil rights and human dignity (since 1996)
- Human Rights Prize of the Ingrid-zu-Solms-Stiftung ( Ingrid-zu-Solms-Stiftung )
- Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (City of Weimar )
- Ossip K. Flechtheim Prize ( Humanist Association of Germany, since 2003)
- Petra Kelly Prize ( Heinrich Böll Foundation , since 1998)
- Prize for understanding and human rights (Ulrich Zwiener Foundation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena )
- PRO ASYLUM hand ( Pro Asylum )
- Reinhold Maier Medal ( Reinhold Maier Foundation , the FDP / DVP parliamentary group and the FDP Baden-Württemberg , since 1989)
- Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity
- Shalom Prize (Shalom Working Group for Justice and Peace, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , since 1982)
- Social Human Rights Prize (Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation, since 2012)
- Thomas Dehler Prize ( Thomas Dehler Foundation , since 1985)
- Victor Gollancz Prize ( Society for Threatened Peoples )
Great Britain
- Anna Politkovskaya Prize (women's organization Reach All Women in War )
France
- Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and Rule of Law (Foreign Ministry, Foreign Office Germany, since 2016)
- Human Rights Prize of the French Republic ( Prix des droits de l'Homme de la République Française , Prime Minister)
Ireland
Netherlands
- Max van der Stoelen Prize (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Norway
- Nobel Peace Prize ( Norwegian Nobel Committee )
- Sakharov Freedom Prize ( Norwegian Helsinki Committee )
- Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize (Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, since 1987)
Austria
- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award , since 2006
- Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights ( Bruno Kreisky , since 1979)
- Felix Ermacora Human Rights Prize
- Graz Human Rights Prize ( City of Graz , since 2007)
- Human Rights Prize of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz ( Karl-Franzens-University Graz )
- Human Rights Award of the State of Carinthia (Land Kärnten )
- Human Rights Award of the Province of Upper Austria (Province of Upper Austria )
- Human Rights Award of the State of Styria (State of Styria , since 2000)
- Human Rights Prize of the Austrian League for Human Rights , since 2010
Poland
- Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize (Villa Decius Foundation, since 2004)
Sweden
- Per Anger Prize (Kingdom of Sweden)
- Right Livelihood Award (Right Livelihood Foundation)
- The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (Swedish government and several charities, since 2000)
Switzerland
- Anna Göldi Human Rights Prize ( Anna Göldi Foundation )
- European Prize for Human Rights from the Pro Europa cultural foundation
Spain
- International Human Rights Award (Spanish Coalition Against Racism, Xenophobia and Similar Discrimination)
- Jaime Brunet Prize for Human Rights ( University of Navarra , since 1998)
- Princess of Asturias Prize for Unity (Prince of Asturias Foundation, since 1986)
Czech Republic
- Homo-Homini Prize , since 1994
Outside of Europe
Indonesia
- Yap-Thiam-Hien Prize for Human Rights
Israel
- Emil Grünzweig Human Rights Prize (since 1981)
Colombia
- Franco-German Antonio Nariño Human Rights Prize (French and German embassies, since 2010)
Mexico
- German-French Gilberto Bosques Human Rights Prize (French and German embassies, since 2012)
Nicaragua
- Franco-German human rights award in Nicaragua (French and German embassies, since 2013)
United States
- Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger ( The Hunger Project , since 1987)
- Carter-Menil Award (Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation, since 1986)
- Joseph Prize for Human Rights
( Anti Defamation League ) for international politicians
- Paul Ehrlich-Gunther K. Schwerin Prize for Human Rights ( Anti-Defamation League ) for German social figures
- Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
Awards for democracy, understanding and tolerance
Awards from international organizations
- Tolerance Prize ( European Academy of Sciences and Arts , since 1997)
- UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence ( UNESCO , since 1996)
Awards from national organizations
Germany
- Active for Democracy and Tolerance ( Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance , since 2000)
- Dachau Prize for moral courage
- The glass of reason (Kassel citizen, since 1991)
- The intrepid word ( Federation of 16 Luther Cities , since 1996)
- Democracy Prize of the papers for German and international politics
- Ernst Alexander Award ( FC Schalke 04 and the Schalke Foundation helps! )
- Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation , since 2006
- Ignatz Bubis Prize for Understanding (City of Frankfurt am Main , since 2001)
- International Democracy Prize Bonn ( Alexander Koenig Society , Deutsche Welle , Bonner Generalanzeiger, Sparkasse Cologne)
- International Willy Brandt Prize ( SPD , since 2001)
- Julius Hirsch Prize ( German Football Association , since 2005)
- Ludwig Wolker badge ( German Sports Association , since 1980)
- Margravine Wilhelmine Prize of the City of Bayreuth for tolerance and humanity, since 2008
- Marion Dönhoff Prize for International Understanding and Reconciliation ( Die Zeit , Marion Dönhoff Foundation, since 2003)
- Memminger Freedom Prize 1525 , since 2005
- Oscar Romero Prize (Friends of the Oscar Romero House, Bonn)
- Prize for Understanding and Tolerance (Jewish Museum Berlin, since 2002)
- Saxon Prize for Democracy , ( Freudenberg Foundation , Amadeu Antonio Foundation and others, since 2007)
- Sievershausen Encouragement (Anti-War House Sievershausen / Lehrte)
- Theodor Haecker Prize (City of Esslingen am Neckar , since 1995)
- Tolerance Prize of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing ( Evangelical Academy Tutzing , since 2000)
- Tolerance Prize of the City of Münster (City of Münster , since 1993)
Great Britain
- Women of the World Award (WomenAid International, since at least 1989)
Austria
- Honorary award of the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action ( Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade , Federal Committee for the Book and Media Industry, since 1990)
- Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding (City of Vienna)
- Ute Bock Prize for moral courage , since 1999
Poland
- Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize (Villa Decius Foundation, President of Poland, since 2004)
Sweden
- Olof Palme Prize ( Swedish Social Democratic Party , Olof Palmes family, since 1987)
Media awards for human rights and freedom of the press
Media awards from international organizations
Media awards from national organizations
Germany
- German Media Prize for Development Policy ( Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development , Deutsche Welle , since 2013)
- German Human Rights Film Award (several organizations, since 1998)
- Marl Media Prize for Human Rights , formerly Marl Television Prize for Human Rights (Central Ruhr district of the German section of Amnesty International , since 2001)
- Foresight award for socially committed photographers
Austria
- Concordia Prize for Human Rights ( Concordia Press Club , since 1998)
- Johann Philipp Palm Prize for Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Press (Palm Foundation, since 2002)
United States
Former human rights awards
Human rights awards from international organizations
- Recognition Award ( International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights , 2000-2006)
- European Human Rights Prize ( Council of Europe )
Human rights awards from national organizations
Germany
- Leipzig Human Rights Prize (European-American Citizens' Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the USA, 2000-2004)
- Human rights award from the state of Lower Saxony
Denmark
- Lego Prize ( Lego company , since 1985)
Libya
- International Gaddafi Prize for Human Rights (since 1989)
United States
- Reebok Human Rights Award ( Reebok International Limited )
See also
literature
- Anne Dieter, Astrid Radunski: Human Rights Prizes , Part I , in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 2003, p. 192ff.
- Anne Dieter, Sarah Karniski, Astrid Radunski: Human Rights Prizes, Part II , in: MenschenRechtsMagazin 2004, p. 72ff.
Web links
- Human Rights Awards in the World IDHBB
- German Human Rights Awards University of Potsdam (pdf)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schalke Kreisel : No. 8 , p. 63 of December 2, 2017