Bruno Kreisky Award

Bruno Kreisky Award

The Bruno-Kreisky-Award is a biennial award created in October 1976 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Bruno Kreisky. The laureates are rewarded for their achievements in the field of human rights with the monetary award of between 3500 and 15 000 euros. The prizewinners are chosen by an international panel of judges.

Laureates

2006
* Jürgen Habermas2005
* Nadja Lorenz and Georg Bürstmayr from Vienna "for the advocacy of the asylum seekers' and migrants' rights in Austria"
* Andrei Sannikov from Belarus "for his work within the Charta 97, a citizens' action group and human rights organisation from Minsk."

2002
* Cardinal Franz König, the former achbishop of Vienna for his dedication to tolerance and dialogue
* Ute Bock from Vienna for her commitment to helping refugees
* Amira Hass from Tel Aviv/Ramallah for her outstanding and independent work in journalism;
* Palestinian Centre for Human Rights from Gaza City, for its dedication to protecting human rights in the occupied Palestinean territories. 2000
* Radhika Coomaraswamy from Sri Lanka, UN-Special Ambassador for the matters related to violence against women
* Centre for Human Rights from Belgrade
* Austrian NGO-project "Antidiskriminierungsgesetz" 1999
* Doron Rabinovici1998
* Otto Tausig
* Willi Resetarits
* Abbas Amir Entezam1996
* Erich Hackl1995
* Leyla Zana
* Sumaya Farhat Naser
* Uri Avnery
* Manfred Nowak director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (BIM)1993
* Nicolae Gheorghe1991
* Faisal Husseini
* Felicia Langer
* Erwin Kräutler
* Society for the threatened peoples (Austria)
* Paulinho Paiakan1989

1987

1985

1983

1981
* Nelson Mandela
* Kim Dae Jung1979
* Hildegard Goss-Mayr,
* Ken Saro-Wiwa,
* Sergej Kowaljov

External links

* [http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights/ www.kreisky.org/human.rights]


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