International Human Rights Award: Past Recipients

The following people are Section of Litigation International Human Rights Award recipients.

2011

• Louise Arbour, International Crisis Group

2010

• Beatrice Mtetwa, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

2009

• Edwin Rekosh, Public Interest Law Institute (PILI)

2008

• Karen I. Tse, International Bridges for Justice

2007

• Elena S. Ezhora, Stichting Russian Justice Initiative, Moscow, Russia

2006

• Salih Mahmoud Osman, Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT)

2005

• Roger Myers, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (work in Kazakhstan)

2004

• Colin Gonsalves, Human Rights Law Network

2003

• Monice E. Magoke-Mjoja, Executive Director and founder, Women’s Legal Aid Centre, Tanzania

2002

• Cambodian Defenders Project
• Yonko Grozev, legal defense program director of Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

2001

• The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (Judge Andre Davis of U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland accepted the award on their behalf)
• Dr. Leonel Morejon Almagro (originally awarded the 1997 award but was detained in Havana at the time)

2000

• Digna Ochoa, Mexican lawyer

1999

• Vera Stremkovaskaya, Belarus lawyer
• Zainur Zakaria, Malaysian lawyer

1998

• Senator George Mitchell
• Vesna Alaburic, Croatian lawyer

1997

• Dr. Rene Gomez Manzano, Cuban lawyer
• Dr. Leonel Morejon Almagro, Cuban lawyer

1996

• Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer
• Femi Falana, Nigeria lawyer
• Olisa Agbakoba, Nigerian lawyer

1995

• Nejib Hosni
• Martin Lee

1994

• Judge Richard Goldstone of South Africa
• Dimitrina Petrova, lawyer in Bulgaria

1993

• Carlos Basombrio, lawyer with the Legal Defense Institue of Lima, Peru
• Gustovo Gallon Giraldo, lawyer with the Columbian Section of the Andean Comission of Jurists in Bogota, Columbia

1992

• Human Rights League of Chad; Enoch Djondang accepted the award
• Legal Aid Centre of Pakistan

1991

• The Sudan Bar Association; Dr. Amin Mekki Medani accepted the award
• Jean-Jacques Honorat of the Haitian Center for Human Rights
• Dr. Otakar Motejl, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Czeck and Slovak Federal Republic
• The Council of the Law Society of Kenya