Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity
The Roland Berger Human Dignity Award is an international human rights award that the Roland Berger Foundation has awarded since 2008.
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The Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity honors people and organizations who are exemplary and successful in promoting human dignity and promoting international understanding, tolerance and a free and peaceful society. The prize is awarded regularly in Berlin. The prize money is earmarked. The motive of the founder, Roland Berger, was that "as a child in his own family he [had] experienced how political distress can cause fear and suffering and how precious human dignity and tolerance are."
The committee charged with selecting the winners consists of Romano Prodi , Shirin Ebadi , Joschka Fischer , Maria Furtwängler , Muhammad Yunus and the founder Roland Berger (as of March 2017). The foundation's capital is 50 million euros.
The 2019 award ceremony was postponed at short notice after Adam Bodnar declared that he would not accept the award. He justified this with doubts about the role of the founder's father, Georg Berger (1893–1977), during the Nazi era . School without Racism - School with Courage also rejected the award.
Award winners
- 2008 Somaly Mam
- 2009 Shirin Ebadi , Reporters Without Borders
- 2010 Helmut Kohl For Kohl, who was unable to attend for health reasons, Hesse's Prime Minister Roland Koch accepted the award from Federal President Horst Köhler . The laudator was Wladyslaw Bartoszewski , former Foreign Minister of Poland.
- 2011 Radhia Nasraoui , Tunisian lawyer, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and Mazen Darwish , Syrian journalist, founder of the "Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression" (SCM)
- 2012/13 Jagori , Indian women's rights organization; Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights attorney; Afghan Women's Network ; Honorary award: W. Michael Blumenthal for his commitment as director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- 2014/15 Katrine Camilleri, Maltese lawyer; Alganesc Fessaha, Eritrean-Italian doctor; Petite Flamme, Congolese school organization
- 2016/17 Ann-Marie Caulker, women's rights activist from Sierra Leone; Talent Search and Empowerment, Tanzanian NGO; WADI eV, German-Iraqi association
- 2019 Office of the Ombudsman for Citizenship of the Republic of Poland and its head Adam Bodnar ; Program School without Racism - School with Courage by Aktion Courage e. V .; Organization #ichbinhier e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roland Berger on the foundation. Roland Berger Foundation website, accessed on October 7, 2019 .
- ↑ The award of the Human Dignity Prize is postponed. In: Deutschlandfunk .de , October 19, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org/was-wir-tun/aktuelles/aktuelles-einzelansicht/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=12491&cHash=8401801d5c1b18ba1e2919a97c326c93
- ↑ Shirin Ebadi, a member of the decision-making body, was not involved in the decision to award the 2009 prize to herself. On the current occasion, she was awarded 100,000 euros from the prize money after her human rights office in Tehran was vandalized at the beginning of the year. The other committee members wanted to support Ms. Ebadi's work to protect human dignity and human rights.
- ↑ "Helmut Kohl is and will remain a monument" . Image. April 27, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ Speech by Federal President Christian Wulff on November 22, 2011, bundespraesident.de
- ↑ Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2019 , rolandbergerstiftung.org, September 3, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019