The Homo Homini Award (

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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

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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; ; 2 March 1930 – 9 August 2021) was a Russian human rights activist and politician. During the Soviet period he was a dissident and, after 1975, a political prisoner. Early career and ...

*1997:

Szeto Wah Szeto Wah (; 28 February 1931 – 2 January 2011) was a 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 Professional Teac ...

*1998:

Ibrahim Rugova Ibrahim Rugova (; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo-Albanian politician, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President ...

*1999:

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*2000:

Min Ko Naing Paw Oo Tun ( ; born 18 October 1962), 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 state for his op ...

*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 Huyền Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008Vietnam ...

Thích Quảng Độ Thích Quảng Độ ( vi-hantu, 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 execu ...

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 w ...

*2005: Ales Bialatski and the Belarusian organisation Viasna *2006:

Svetlana Gannushkina Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina (, 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 Nobel Peace Prize. Gannushkina became well-known in Russia as a human r ...

*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 (, ; 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 the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. Pol ...

, and

Nilar Thein Nilar Thein (, ) (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 prisoner of conscience. 8888 uprising an ...

*2008:

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary criticism, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Ch ...

, and symbolically to all of the signatories of

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*2009: Majid Tavakoli and Abdollah Momeni *2010:

Azimzhan Askarov Azimzhan Askarov (; 17 May 195125 July 2020) was a Kyrgyzstani political activist who founded the group ''Vozduh'' in 2002 to investigate police brutality. Of ethnic Uzbek descent, during the 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes, which primaril ...

*2011: Doctors Coordinate of Damascus *2012:

Intiqam Aliyev Intiqam Kamil oglu Aliyev (; sometimes also spelled Intigam; born 30 November 1962, Pushkin (now Bilasuvar), Azerbaijan SSR) is an Azerbaijani lawyer and human rights activist. Along with other human rights activists, Aliyev was jailed in mid-2 ...

*2013: Sapijat Magomedova *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) *2017:

Phạm Đoan Trang Phạm Đoan 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 lea ...

*2018:

Francisca Ramírez Francisca Ramírez Tórrez (also known as Doña Francisca or Doña Chica, born 1977) is a Nicaraguan farmer and peasants (''campesinos'') rights activist. She has been a leader of 2014-2020 Nicaraguan protests, protests that began in 2014 aga ...

*2019: Buzurgmehr Yorov *2020:

Marfa Rabkova Marfa Rabkova ( Belarusian and ; born 6 January 1995) is a Belarusian human rights activist who works for the Viasna Human Rights Centre. In 2020 she was arrested by the Belarusian authorities for her activism and sent to the pre-trial prison SI ...

, Andrei Chapiuk,

Leanid Sudalenka Leanid Sudalenka (; ; born 23 September 1966) is a Belarusian human rights activist and chairman of the Gomel branch of the human rights organisation Viasna. In January 2021, he was arrested for allegedly organising protests held in Gomel followi ...

, Tatsiana Lasitsa of the

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*2021:

Mahienour El-Massry Mahienour El-Masry (Egyptian Arabic: ماهينور المصري, born 7 January 1986 in Alexandria ) is an Egyptian human rights lawyer and political activist from Alexandria, who has been engaged on the activist scene in the coastal city since ...

* 2022: Javier Tarazona, venezuelan activistpeopleinneed.net
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Victoria Roshchyna Victoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (; 6 October 1996 – 19 September 2024) was a Ukrainian journalist who reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Siege of Mariupol. She was a recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation's ...

References

External links

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