Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize has been awarded since 2013 and is presented annually to individuals or institutions for an exceptional contribution to the defense of human rights. The award is named after the dissident and Czechoslovak and Czech President Václav Havel and is endowed with 60,000 euros. Half of this is provided by the Council of Europe and the other half by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize replaced the previous European Human Rights Prize of the Council of Europe and the Human Rights Prize of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

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At the end of 2012, a contract for the introduction of the award was signed with representatives of the Václav Havel Library, the Czech Charter 77 Foundation and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in the Czernin Palace in Prague .

Selection committee

The selection committee for the award consists of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (or a person nominated by him) and six independent persons (who are not currently members of the Assembly) with recognized moral standards in the field of human rights. The panel will review the nominations, submit a list of three nominees for information to the Presidium of the Parliamentary Assembly and then name the winner for the year in question.

Three committee members are appointed by the Presidium of the Parliamentary Assembly and three bodies of the Václav Havel Library and the Charter 77 Foundation. The six independent experts are appointed for a period of two years, which can be renewed twice.

Award winners

2013: Ales Bjaljazki , Belarus
2014: Anar Məmmədli , Azerbaijan
2015: Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alexejewa , Russia
2016: Nadia Murad , Iraq
2017: Murat Arslan , Turkey
2018: Ojub Titijew , Russia (Chechnya)
2019: Ilham Tohti , China and YIHR (Youth Initiative for Human Rights in the Balkans)
2020: Loujain al-Hathloul , Saudi Arabia
2021: Maryja Kalesnikawa , Belarus

Web links

Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (Homepage)
Václav Havel Human Rights Prize Council of Europe website

Individual evidence

↑ oli / sda: Uyghur imprisoned in China receives Vaclav Havel Prize. In: Bernese Oberland. September 30, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
↑ Havel Prize for Government Critics and Youth Initiative , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from September 30, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019.
↑ Vaclav Havel Prize for Kolesnikowa , Tagesschau, September 27, 2021.

[1] / sda: Uyghur imprisoned in China receives Vaclav Havel Prize. In: Bernese Oberland. September 30, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).

[2] Havel Prize for Government Critics and Youth Initiative , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from September 30, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019.

[3] Vaclav Havel Prize for Kolesnikowa , Tagesschau, September 27, 2021.