Raoul Wallenberg Prize

This article deals with the Raoul Wallenberg Prize of the Council of Europe. For the prize awarded by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States , see Raoul Wallenberg Award .

The Raoul Wallenberg Prize of the Council of Europe is a prize that is awarded every two years for exceptional humanitarian achievements by an individual, a group of people or an organization and is endowed with 10,000 euros.

history

At the initiative of the Swedish government and the Hungarian parliament , the Council of Europe founded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize to keep the memory of the outstanding achievements of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg alive.

Selection committee

The selection committee is made up of seven independent persons who enjoy a high moral reputation in the field of human rights and humanitarian work and who are supported by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the City of Budapest , the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of the Lund University Law Faculty , the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the family of Raoul Wallenberg.

The award ceremony will take place shortly before January 17th - the day Raoul Wallenberg was arrested in Budapest in 1945 - in the Council of Europe.

Award winners

• 2014: Elmas Arus , Turkey
• 2016: Agkalia ( NGO on the island of Lesbos ), Greece
• 2018: European Center for Roma Rights (ERRC)
• 2019: János Székely , Bishop of Szombathely , Hungary
• 2020: Amani Ballour, pediatrician, Syria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Council of Europe on the Foundation of the Prize and Award 2018 , accessed on March 3, 2019
2. ^ Raoul Wallenberg Prize - earlier editions