Sean MacBride Peace Prize
The Sean MacBride Peace Prize (in German: Sean MacBride Peace Prize ) is a human rights activist after the Irish Seán MacBride named and the International Peace Bureau award (IPB) since 1992 Peace Prize .
background
According to the IPB, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize is awarded to people or organizations who have made an outstanding contribution to peace, disarmament and / or human rights. The namesake, Seán MacBride, Irish politician, co-founder of Amnesty International and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and once chairman and president of the IPB, campaigned for these issues himself.
The award winners are decided by the IPB Steering Committee after members of the IPB have submitted proposals.
The winner receives a metal medal from recycled nuclear weapons. There is no financial contribution associated with the award.
The award was initiated for the 100th anniversary of the IPB.
Award winners
- 2017: Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky and All Okinawa Coalition Against New Construction of Henoko Base
- 2016: Coline Archer, President of the IPB
- 2015: Population and municipalities of the islands of Lampedusa (Italy) and Jejudo (South Korea).
- 2014: People and Government of the Marshall Islands
- 2013: Bradley Manning (official award on September 14th)
- 2012: Lina Ben Mhenni and Nawal El Saadawi
- 2011: Hanaa Edwar and Peter Becker
- 2010: Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel
- 2009: Betty Reardon
- 2008: Jacqueline Cabasso
- 2007: Jayantha Dhanapala
- 2006: Mayors for Peace (awarded to Tadatoshi Akiba and Itchō Itō )
- 2005: not awarded
- 2004: Creator of the Geneva Initiative
- 2003: Nihon Hidankyō
- 2002: Barbara Lee
- 2001: Rosalie Bertell
- 2000: Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik
- 1999: Barbara Gladysch
- 1998: John Hume
- 1997: Seeds of hope
- 1996: Selim Bešlagić
- 1995: Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia
- 1994: Mordechai Vanunu
- 1993: Hilda Lini
- 1992: Michael D. Higgins
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ IPB awards MacBride Peace Prize 2013 to US whistleblower Bradley Manning. (No longer available online.) Ipb.org, July 19, 2013, archived from the original on July 24, 2013 ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Detlef Borchers, Christian Kirsch: Peace Prize for Bradley Manning. heise.de, July 20, 2013, accessed on July 20, 2013 .
