Prize for understanding and human rights

The International Prize for Human Rights and Understanding is an award for personalities who stand up against human rights violations and for tolerance towards those who think differently. It has been awarded by the Ulrich Zwiener Foundation, the Collegium Europaeum Jenense and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 1996 and is endowed with 2,500 euros in prize money.

Award winners

1996: Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Poland, former Prime Minister
1999: Yolande Mukagasana , Rwanda, nurse
2002: Saad Eddin Ibrahim , Egypt, civil rights activist
2004: Zoran Đinđić , Serbia, Prime Minister (posthumous)
2008: Wilhelm Goller , former head of the »Talitha Kumi« school in Beit Jala in Israel
2012: Shirin Ebadi , Iran, lawyer

Prize for intercultural understanding among young people

A prize for intercultural understanding among young people has also been awarded since 2003, with prize money of 500 euros

Award winners

2003: Juliane Graf (University of Erfurt),

Huang Ho (University of Jena),

Madlen Kind (FH Schmalkalden)

2005: Children's language bridge Jena eV
2009: Christian high school in Jena
2016: Support center at Andreasried, Erfurt

Class 10b of the "Conrad Ekhof" regular school, Gotha

Web links

Ulrich Zwiener Foundation laureate

Remarks

↑ Yolande Mukagasana Peace Women (English)
^ Jena Human Rights Prize for Saad Eddin Ibrahim Information Service Science
↑ Zoran Djindjic receives posthumously Jena Human Rights Award NGO
↑ Price 2008 ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 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. Collegium Europaeum Jenense @1@ 2

↑ Jena Human Rights Prize for Dr. Shirin Ebadi ( Memento of the original from November 24, 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. University of Jena @1@ 2

↑ Jena Foundation Prize for school classes in Erfurt and Gotha Thüringer Allgemeine, June 22, 2016

[1] Yolande Mukagasana Peace Women (English)

[2] Jena Human Rights Prize for Saad Eddin Ibrahim Information Service Science

[3] Zoran Djindjic receives posthumously Jena Human Rights Award NGO

[4] Price 2008 ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 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. Collegium Europaeum Jenense @1@ 2

[5] Jena Human Rights Prize for Dr. Shirin Ebadi ( Memento of the original from November 24, 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. University of Jena @1@ 2

[6] Jena Foundation Prize for school classes in Erfurt and Gotha Thüringer Allgemeine, June 22, 2016