Victor Gollancz Prize
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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
- 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
- ^ "Home - Victor-Gollancz-Grundschule". victor-gollancz-grundschule.de.
- ^ "Waynakh Online » Memorial Received the Victor Gollancz Prize". www.waynakh.com.
- ^ "Chechnyan President forces Victor Gollancz Prize-winner Oleg Orlov to face a court hearing". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ Invitation to the awarding of the "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Bernard Kouchner Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine, gfbv.de