Victor Gollancz Prize

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The Victor Gollancz Prize is an award given to people or organizations who stand up for the victims of human rights crimes at the risk of their own lives.

It has been awarded by the Society for Threatened Peoples since 2002 in memory of the Jewish humanist Victor Gollancz . The total prize money is 5,000 euros.

Award winners

  • 2000: The "Movement of the Mothers" from the enclaves Srebrenica and Žepa . For four years the two eastern Bosnian towns on the Drina were surrounded by Serbian troops. 8,376 men and boys from Srebrenica were murdered by Serbian militias and buried in mass graves. The goals of the mothers' movement are to clarify the fate of their relatives, their exhumation, identification and burial in the Potocari Memorial, and to support the resettlement of the rest of the family in their hometowns.
  • 2001: Zainap Gaschajewa and Lipkan Basajewa, the two Chechen women, born in 1953 and 1949 during the collective exile of their people in Central Asia, became internationally known human rights activists, not least thanks to their commitment to the GfbV. During Russia's two wars against Chechnya (1994–1996, 1999–2006), both were involved in Chechnya for their compatriots, documenting crimes, distributing aid, initiating humanitarian projects, and informing the international public about the conditions in Chechnya.
  • 2003: The "Association of Former Female Bosnian Camp Prisoners" was honored for its tireless humanitarian and human commitment to the survivors of the Serbian concentration and rape camps.
  • 2003: The "Widows of the Barzan Valley" lost 8,000 of their husbands and sons who were murdered by Saddam Hussein . Thanks to an initiative by the GfbV, most of the villages in the valley have been rebuilt. The organization “Venjin” (rebirth) represents the concerns of the relatives of the massacre.
  • 2005: Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow , Russian human rights activist who worked closely with Andrei Sakharov for years. In 1970 he was sentenced to seven years in prison and three years in a camp for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda". He documented the Russian war crimes in Chechnya and is one of the board members of " Memorial ".
  • 2005: Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemilew shared the deportation with his family and the entire Crimean Tatar people in 1944, in which over 40% of his compatriots were killed. Politically active in the banned “Council of Crimean Tatar Youth” in the USSR, he was sentenced to 15 years in a camp. After returning to his homeland in 1989 with his family and two thirds of the Crimean Tatar people, he was elected President of the Crimean Tatar Parliament and Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
  • 2008: Halima Bashir , the doctor from West Sudan / Darfur, herself a rape victim by Arab militias, raises her voice for her compatriots who are threatened with genocide.
  • 2008: Jovan Divjak defended the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, which had been trapped for four years, against the troops of Karadžić and Mladić. Divjak, Serbian Bosnian, runs an aid organization for children in Sarajevo.
  • 2009: CIMI , Brazilian Catholic Missionary Society, which works for the rights of indigenous people
  • 2009: Memorial , Russian human rights organization that works for the victims of the wars in Chechnya
  • 2014: Bernard Kouchner

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Catholic Indian Mission Council CIMI from Brazil and the Russian human rights organization Memorial receive the 2009 Victor Gollancz Prize Society for Threatened Peoples
  2. ↑ Human rights activists honor Indian Mission Council Göttinger Tagblatt, November 5, 2009