The Homo Homini Award (
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: "A human to another human") is given annually by the
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human rights organization
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to "an individual in recognition of a dedication to the promotion of human rights, democracy and non-violent solutions to political conflicts". The award is presented at the
One World Film Festival
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, the world's largest human rights film festival.
Winners of the Homo Homini Award
Past winners of the Homo Homini Award include the following:
*1994:
Sergei Kovalev
Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov (also spelled Sergey Kovalev; russian: link=no, Сергей Адамович Ковалёв; 2 March 1930 – 9 August 2021) was a Russian human rights activist and politician. During the Soviet period he was a diss ...
*1997:
Szeto Wah
Szeto Wah (; 28 February 1931 – 2 January 2011) was a prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and politician. He was the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the Hong Kong Profes ...
*1998:
Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova (; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a prominent Kosovo Albanian political leader, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President ...
*1999:
Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas
*2000:
Min Ko Naing
Paw Oo Tun ( my, ပေါ်ဦးထွန်း ); better known by his alias Min Ko Naing, ( , lit. "conqueror of kings") is a leading democracy activist and dissident from Myanmar. He has spent most of the years since 1988 imprisoned by the ...
*2001:
Zackie Achmat
Abdurrazack "Zackie" Achmat (born 21 March 1962) is a South African activist and film director. He is a co-founder the Treatment Action Campaign and known worldwide for his activism on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa. ...
*2002:
,
Thích Quảng Độ
Thích Quảng Độ (釋廣度)(; 27 November 1928 – 22 February 2020) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and scholar who was the patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) from 2008 until his death. Since the execution of his m ...
and
Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý
*2003:
Nataša Kandić
*2004:
Gheorghe Briceag
Gheorghe Briceag (15 April 1928 – 16 August 2008) was a Moldovan human rights activist notable for his opposition to Soviet rule. In the 1940s, Briceag was given a ten-year sentence in the gulag for distributing anti-communist flyers; he wa ...
*2005:
Ales Bialatski and the Belarusian organisation
Viasna
*2006:
Svetlana Gannushkina
Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina (russian: Светла́на Алексе́евна Га́ннушкина, born 6 March 1942) is a mathematician and human rights activist in Russia who was reported to have been a serious contender for the 2010 ...
*2007:
Su Su Nway,
Phyu Phyu Thin, and
Nilar Thein
*2008:
Liu Xiaobo, and symbolically to all of the signatories of
Charter 08
Charter 08 is a manifesto initially signed by 303 Chinese dissident intellectuals and human rights activists. It was published on 10 December 2008, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopting its name and style from ...
*2009:
Majid Tavakoli and
Abdollah Momeni
Abdollah Momeni is an Iranian student leader and activist. He became involved in the movement in the July 1999 protests, when large numbers of students across the country protested the abolition of pro-reform newspaper ''Salam''. Abdollah Momeni w ...
*2010:
Azimzhan Askarov
*2011:
Doctors Coordinate of Damascus
*2012:
Intiqam Aliyev
*2013:
Sapijat Magomedova
*2014:
Souad Nawfal
Souad Nawfal (also Suad Nofal) is a Syrian Muslim schoolteacher and activist who became known for her protests against Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. She received the Homo Homini Award, a human rights award, in 2014.
She s ...
*2015: eleven dissidents from the formerly imprisoned 75 Cuban dissidents, who refused to leave the country to fight for democracy
*2016:
Committee for the Prevention of Torture (Russia)
*2017:
Phạm Đoan Trang
*2018:
Francisca Ramírez
*2019:
Buzurgmehr Yorov
*2020:
Marfa Rabkova, Andrei Chapiuk, Leanid Sudalenka, Tatsiana Lasitsa of the
Viasna Human Rights Centre
The Viasna Human Rights Centre ( be, Праваабарончы цэнтр «Вясна», Pravaabarončy centr «Viasna») is a human rights organization based in Minsk, Belarus. The organization aims to provide financial and legal assistance to ...
*2021:
Mahienour El-Massry
References
External links
Homo Homini award site
Awards established in 1994
Human rights awards
1994 establishments in the Czech Republic
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