UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Tolerance Award
The UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence (German: "UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence "), UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Tolerance Prize; Own writing : UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Tolerance Prize ) was awarded for the first time in 1996. It is endowed with 40,000 dollars and is awarded every two years on International Day of Tolerance on November 16. The award was launched in 1995 on the occasion of the international year of tolerance and the 125th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi . It is awarded to institutions or personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and non-violence in accordance with the UNESCO constitution. The award was named after its Indian founder, Madanjeet Singh , artist, diplomat and special advisor to the UNESCO Director General.
Award winners
- 1996 Pro-femmes Twese Hamwe, amalgamation of 32 non-governmental organizations of women in Rwanda
- 1998 Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights, Pakistan
- 1998 Narayan Desai , Indian peace activist
- 2000 Schenuda III. , Pope of the Coptic Church
- 2002 Aung San Suu Kyi , politician and activist from Myanmar
- 2004 Taslima Nasrin , Bangladeshi doctor and writer
- 2006 Veerasingham Anandasangaree , President of the Tamil United Liberation Front
- 2009 François Houtart , Belgian sociologist
- 2009 Abdul Sattar Edhi , Pakistani philanthropist
- 2011 Anarkali Honaryar , Afghan women's rights activist
- 2011 Khaled Abu Awwad , for his involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- 2014 Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat (Mali) and Francisco Javier Estévez Valencia (Chile)
Individual evidence
- ↑ UNESCO: Prizes for Human Rights, Peace, Ethics and Social Sciences - accessed on February 4, 2015.
- ↑ a b Social and Human Sciences Sector - UNESCO: Laureates - 2009 Edition (English)
- ↑ a b Social and Human Sciences Sector - UNESCO: 2011 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence to be awarded to Anarkali Honaryar (Afghanistan) and Khaled Abu Awwad (Palestine) (English)
- ↑ Bread for the World : UNESCO Tolerance Prize for Peace Work
- ↑ Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat (Mali) and Francisco Javier Estevez Valencia (Chile) to share 2014 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence. UNESCO, October 6, 2014, accessed October 31, 2014 .