The Victor Gollancz Prize is an international

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

prize awarded by the

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. It is named for British humanitarian Sir

Victor Gollancz Sir Victor Gollancz (; 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian. Gollancz was known as a supporter of left-wing politics. His loyalties shifted between liberalism and communism; he defined himself as a Christian ...

. The prize is awarded in

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Laureates

*2000: The society Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their work to identify the victims of the

Srebrenica Genocide The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units ...

*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 Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has b ...

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 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 ...

, 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:

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, Russia *2014:

Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in t ...

, former French foreign minister and co-founder of

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, in recognition of his "lifelong, unwavering commitment to fight crimes against humanity"Invitation to the awarding of the "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Bernard Kouchner
, gfbv.de

References

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