Human rights award from the city of Weimar
The city of Weimar's human rights prize has been awarded annually since 1995 on December 10th, the day of human rights in Weimar proclaimed by the United Nations . The prize is awarded to individuals, groups or organizations who work for more humanity and tolerance between people and peoples, but especially for the preservation and establishment of the basic values of equality, freedom and justice against the background of their ethnic and religious identity work in or for their home.
Award winners
- 1995: Walter Schilling (1930–2013), opposition activist in the GDR and Selim Bešlagić (* 1942) a Bosnian activist for the reconciliation of different ethnic groups
- 1996: Luis Guillermo Pérez Casas (* 1962), Colombian lawyer
- 1997: Bekololari Ransome-Kuti (1940-2006), Nigerian doctor
- 1998: Meral Danış Beştaş (* 1967), Turkish lawyer
- 1999: Heike Kammer , German human rights activist and international observer in Guatemala and Mexico, and Jean-Paul Bengehya Muhanano (* 1968), human rights activist and mediator in the context of the “Initiative pour la Paix” in the Congo
- 2000: Shay Cullen (* 1943), Filipino father of Irish descent; Fighters against the Marcos regime and the sexual exploitation of children.
- 2001: Shahnaz Bokhari , Pakistani women's rights activist
- 2002: Jamaicans for Justice , Jamaica ( Carolyn Gomes , * 1958, director)
- 2003: Riad Seif (* 1946), Syrian opposition activist, political prisoner at the time of the award ceremony
- 2004: Paul Polansky (* 1942), American historian and journalist, human rights activist with a focus on minority protection of the Roma and Ashkali in Kosovo
- 2005: Libkan Bazaeva (* 1949), Chechen peace activist
- 2006: Guillermo Fariñas (* 1962), Cuban opposition journalist
- 2007: Nimisha Desai (* 1962), Indian women's rights activist
- 2008: Issam Younis (* 1964), Palestinian human rights activist and director of the al-Mezan organization in the Gaza Strip
- 2009: Sonja Biserko (* 1948), Serbian human rights activist and Jestina Mukoko , opposition journalist from Zimbabwe
- 2010: Lenin Raghuvanshi (* 1970), Indian human rights activist
- 2011: Biram Dah Abeid (* 1965), Mauritanian human rights activist
- 2012: François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo (* 1956), Congolese Archbishop and Apostolic Administrator of Uvira
- 2013: Benki Piyãko (* 1974), Brazilian Indio, political representative of the Asháninka indigenous people
- 2014: Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim , Archbishop of Aleppo of the Syrian Orthodox Church , and Boulos Yazigi , Archbishop of Aleppo of the Greek Orthodox Church. Both campaigned for an interreligious dialogue during the civil war in Syria.
- 2015: Sr. Stella Matutina OSB , chairwoman of SAMIN (Sisters' Association in Mindanao, Philippines), for her commitment to the rights of the inhabitants of the Philippine island of Mindanao.
- 2016: Narges Mohammadi , Iranian women's rights activist and human rights defender
- 2017: Ilham Tohti , Chinese-Uighur economist and critic of the regime
- 2018: Sr. Lorena Jenal , Swiss nun
Others
In response to the 2017 award ceremony for Ilham Tohti, Tongji University in Shanghai completely stopped its student exchange with Bauhaus University Weimar .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup: China takes action against German researchers. In: www.spiegel.de. July 31, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 .