European Human Rights Prize
The European Human Rights Prize, also known as the Council of Europe Human Rights Prize, was a human rights prize awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in recognition of outstanding contributions to the cause of human rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.
It was instituted in 1980 when the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution (80) 1 containing regulations on a European Human Rights Prize.[1]
Winners
- 2013 - Malala Yousafzai
- 2011 - Russian NGO Committee Against Torture[2]
- 1998 – Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT), Chiara Lubich and the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ, Northern Ireland)
- 1995 – Sergei Kovalyov and Raoul Wallenberg
- 1992 – Felix Ermacora and Médecins Sans Frontières
- 1989 – Lech Wałęsa and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
- 1986 – Christian Broda and Raúl Alfonsín
- 1983 – Amnesty International
- 1980 – International Commission of Jurists
References
- ↑ http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc00/EDOC8725.htm
- ↑ "PACE's 2011 Human Rights Prize awarded to the Russian NGO 'Committee against Torture'". www.assembly.coe.int. 2011-04-11. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
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