The Homo Homini Award (

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: "A human to another human") is given annually by the Czech human rights organization People in Need 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, 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 *1997: Szeto Wah *1998: Ibrahim Rugova *1999:

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*2000: Min Ko Naing *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 Huyền Quang, Thích Quảng Độ and Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý *2003:

Nataša Kandić Nataša Kandić ( sr-cyr, Наташа Кандић; born December 16, 1946) is a Serbian human rights activist and coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network, founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organi ...

*2004: Gheorghe Briceag *2005:

Ales Bialatski Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski ( be, Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human ...

and the Belarusian organisation

Viasna 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 ...

*2006: Svetlana Gannushkina *2007:

Su Su Nway Su Su Nway (, ; born 1971; also known as Su Su Nwe) is a Burmese democracy activist and political prisoner. In 2005, she became the first Burmese national to successfully sue local government officials under a 1999 law on forced labour. Forc ...

Phyu Phyu Thin Phyu Phyu Thin ( my, ဖြူဖြူသင်း, ; born 23 December 1971) is a Burmese politician and HIV/AIDS activist who served as a House of Representatives MP for Mingala Taungnyunt Township from 2012 until her removal from office in th ...

, and

Nilar Thein Nilar Thein ( my, နီလာသိန်း, ) (born 4 March 1972) is a Burmese democracy activist and political prisoner imprisoned from 2008 to 2012 at Thayet prison in Burma's Magway Region. Amnesty International considered her a prisone ...

*2008:

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, and symbolically to all of the signatories of Charter 08 *2009:

Majid Tavakoli Majid Tavakoli ( fa, مجید توکلی ; born 1986) is an Iranian student leader, human rights activist and political prisoner. He used to be a member of the Islamic Students' Association at Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology, where h ...

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 Azimzhan Askarov ( uz, Azimjon Asqarov, Азимжон Асқаров; 17 May 195125 July 2020) was an ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyzstani political activist who founded the group ''Vozduh'' in 2002 to investigate police brutality. During the 2010 South ...

*2011:

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*2012:

Intiqam Aliyev Intiqam Kamil oglu Aliyev (sometimes also spelled Intigam) (born 30 November 1962, Pushkin (now Bilasuvar), Azerbaijan SSR) is a human rights defender and lawyer in Azerbaijan. Along with other human rights activists, Aliyev was jailed in mid-20 ...

*2013:

Sapijat Magomedova Sapiyat Akhmedovna Magomedova (; born 11 February 1979), sometimes spelled Sapijat Magomedova, is a Russian human rights activist and lawyer from Dagestan. A noted local lawyer in human rights abuses cases, she has presented cases before local c ...

*2014: Souad Nawfal *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) The Crew Against Torture (NGO CAT; russian: Кома́нда прóтив пы́ток, founded as Committee Against Torture, Комитет против пыток, the name was changed in June 2022) is a Russian non-governmental organisation i ...

*2017:

Phạm Đoan Trang Pham Doan Trang (born 1978 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese author, blogger, journalist, publisher, and democracy activist. She received the 2017 Homo Homini Award from People in Need (Czech Republic), People In Need, who called her "one of the leading ...

*2018: Francisca Ramírez *2019:

Buzurgmehr Yorov Buzurgmehr Yorov (russian: link=no, Бузургмехр Ёров, tg, Бузургмеҳр Ёров; 9 July 1971) is a Tajik human rights lawyer and member of the opposition Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan. Throughout the 2000s, serving as ...

*2020:

Marfa Rabkova Marfa Rabkova ( Belarusian and russian: Марфа Рабкова; born 6 January 1995) is a Belarusian human rights activist and part of the Viasna Human Rights Centre. In 2020 she was arrested by the Belarusian authorities for her activism and se ...

, Andrei Chapiuk, Leanid Sudalenka, Tatsiana Lasitsa of the Viasna Human Rights Centre *2021: Mahienour El-Massry

References

External links

Homo Homini award site
Awards established in 1994 Human rights awards 1994 establishments in the Czech Republic {{award-stub