United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly[1] in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments".

They were first awarded in 1968, and they have been given out at five-year intervals since then. The award ceremony traditionally takes place on 10 December, which the UN has designated Human Rights Day. The recipients are selected by a special committee comprising the presidents of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and the chairs of the Human Rights Council (formerly the Commission on Human Rights), the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (formerly Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights).

The physical token of the award is a metal plaque bearing the UN seal and an artistic design, and engraved with an appropriate citation. In contrast to the Nobel prizes and the list of prizewinners shares much common ground with the Nobel Peace Prize in particular the UN's awards are non-monetary in nature.

1968 Prizewinners

René Cassin

1973 Prizewinners

1978 Prizewinners

Helen Suzman

1988 Prizewinners

Winnie Mandela
  • Baba Amte, human rights lawyer (India)
  • John Peters Humphrey, director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights (Canada)
  • Adam Lopatka, president of the Supreme Court (Poland)
  • Leonidas Proaño, Roman Catholic bishop (Ecuador)
  • Nelson Mandela, lawyer and statesman (South Africa)
  • Winnie Mandela, medical social worker (South Africa)

1993 Prizewinners

1998 Prizewinners

Jimmy Carter

2003 Prizewinners

  • Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Argentina)
  • Mano River Women's Peace Network (Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea)
  • Family Protection Project Management Team (Jordan)
  • Deng Pufang, chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation (People's Republic of China)
  • Shulamith Koenig, executive director of the People's Movement for Human Rights Education (United States)
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative murdered in Iraq (posthumous award) (Brazil)

2008 Prizewinners

Benazir Bhutto

2013 Prizewinners

2018 Prizewinners

References

  1. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee
  2. इतिहास पुरुषहरुका दृष्टिमा गणेशमान सिंह, Page 131, (Diamond Sumsher Rana), Publisher:Ganesh Man Singh Foundation
  3. Letter to "Mission Pemanente, Du Royamu Du Nepal, Aupres de l'office des Nations Unies, Geneve" by Nepalese Ambassador, Jayaraj Acharya, nominating Ganesh Man Singh for Human Right Award, Page 63, श्रद्धांजली
  4. "Doctor and Advocate: One Surgeon's Global Fight for the Rights of Rape Survivors". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  5. "Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai among winners of 2013 UN human rights prize". UN News. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  6. "UN names Human Rights Prize winners for 2018". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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