Victor Gollancz Prize
The Victor Gollancz Prize is an international human rights prize awarded by the Society for Threatened Peoples. It is named for British humanitarian Sir Victor Gollancz.[1]
The prize is awarded in Göttingen.
Laureates
Bernard Kouchner, former French foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors without Borders, was the 2014 laureate
- 2000 The society Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their work to identify the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide
- 2001 Zainap Gaschajewa and Lipkan Basajewa, Chechnya, for their humanitarian work and documenting of crimes in Chechnya
- 2003 The Society of Former Female Bosnian Concentration Camp Prisoners, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their humanitarian work for the survivors of the Serb concentration camps and organized war rape campaigns, and the Widows of Barzan-Tal, Iraq, for their work for the families of the victims of the Barzan-Tal massacre
- 2004 Libkan Basaeva, Chechnya
- 2005 Sergei Kovalev, Russia, for his documenting of Russian crimes in Chechnya and his work within the Memorial organization, and Mustafa Dzhemilev, for his work for the Crimean Tatars
- 2008: Halima Bashir, West Sudan/Darfur, for her work for the people of Darfur, and Jovan Divjak, for humanitarian work for children in Sarajevo
- 2009 Memorial, Russia[2][3]
- 2014 Bernard Kouchner, former French foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors without Borders, in recognition of his "lifelong, unwavering commitment to fight crimes against humanity"[4]
References
- ↑ http://victor-gollancz-grundschule.de/?page_id=37
- ↑ http://www.waynakh.com/eng/2009/11/memorial-received-the-victor-gollancz-prize/
- ↑ http://www.gfbv.de/pressemit.php?id=2083&PHPSESSID=25a310a9ab503fc65104633626cb1ad5
- ↑ Invitation to the awarding of the "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Bernard Kouchner, gfbv.de
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