Martin Ennals

Martin Ennals (27 July 1927 – 5 October 1991) was a British human rights activist.

Ennals served as the Secretary-General of Amnesty International, between 1968 and 1980.

He went on to help found the British human rights organisation ARTICLE 19, followed by International Alert in 1985.

The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, created in 1993, is granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous means and is in need of protection. The Martin Ennals Award gives international "protective publicity" to human rights defenders around the world, mainly in their country of origin (a unique characteristic of this award, and very important from a protection point of view), through mass media (television, radio and internet). The winner is selected in Geneva, the world center for human rights, by a jury made up of 10 leading international human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline, International Commission of Jurists, etc...(ww.martinennalsaward.org). The Martin Ennals Award is considered THE award of the whole human rights movement. It is known as "the Nobel prize for human rights" (Le Monde), "the world prize of human rights" (El Pais"), etc. The Annual Ceremony is an event with world Internet and TV coverage. The next annual Ceremony will take place at the Victoria Hall in Geneva on 13 October 2011 (registration on line: www.martinennalsaward.org).

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Preceded by Eric Baker	Secretary-General of Amnesty International 1968–1980	Succeeded by Thomas Hammarberg

See also

• Human Rights Defenders

External links

• Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
• Human rights defenders from Iran and Zimbabwe receive Martin Ennals Award 2006, presented by Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Name	Ennals, Martin
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Date of birth	1927
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Date of death	1991
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