Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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| data-sort-value="Al-Gaddafi" | | | International personalities, bodies or organizations that have distinctively contributed to rendering an outstanding human service and has achieved great actions in defending Human rights, protecting the causes of freedom and supporting peace everywhere in the world |
| Vera Chirwa Awards | | Need to demonstrate dedicated human rights activism, leadership in the field of human rights and democratisation affecting Africa and Africans; contribute to a specific human rights cause or causes, and demonstrate commitment to improving the lives of people everywhere in Africa[2] |
African sub-regional network | Shield Awards | The Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network | Honors exceptional individuals who have contributed to changes in their community by peacefully promoting and protecting human rights, as universally recognised by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights[3] |
Ethiopia | Annual Human Rights Defender Award | Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center | Recognizes the situations of human rights defenders in Ethiopia and highlight the risks they face in their daily lives as well as, the award enhance the award recipient’s human rights activities. The recipient must follow a peaceful approach and must work from a deep personal interest to help others.[4] | |
Award | Sponsor | Given to/for |
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data-sort-value="Four Freedoms" | | | Commitment to the principles which US President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed on January 6, 1941, as essential to democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear |
data-sort-value=" Roosevelt " | | | American promoters of rights in the United States |
data-sort-value="AAAS" | | | Exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, that have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awareness throughout the world |
data-sort-value="Allen Jr. " | | Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation | Individuals who, like Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., stand up for moral principles and render service to humanity without regard for personal or professional peril |
data-sort-value="Brandeis" | | | Commitment to the ideals of individual liberty, concern for the disadvantaged and public service |
data-sort-value="Brennan" | | Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression | (Various awards) |
data-sort-value="Carter–Menil" | | Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation | Individuals and institutions that promote human rights |
data-sort-value="Civil Courage" | | The Train Foundation | Draw attention individually to some extraordinary heroes of conscience |
data-sort-value="Courage Award" | | | Artists, musicians, collectors, curators, writers who sought the truth in their work and demonstrated leadership, courage, resourcefulness in their work, and risked their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the local or national interest despite pressure to succumb to commercial and political constraints |
data-sort-value="Dodd" | | | Significant effort to advance the cause of international justice and global human rights |
data-sort-value="Free Your Mind" | | | Sensitize spectators in touchy matters, the social meat and potatoes, human rights violations, of political and civil laws, promoting the environmental protection in the process NGOs as well as individuals which are dealing with the given subject matter |
data-sort-value="Freedom" | | | Extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom |
data-sort-value="Garvey" | | | Distinguished individuals and human right leaders |
data-sort-value="Global Jurist" | | | Sitting judge who has contributed to the advancement of international human rights law or international criminal law |
data-sort-value="Global Leadership" | | | International women leaders who are working in the fields of human rights, economic empowerment, or political reform |
data-sort-value="Gruber Justice" | | | Contributions that have advanced the cause of justice as delivered through the legal system |
data-sort-value="Gruber Women" | | | Significant contributions, often at great personal or professional risk, to furthering the rights of women and girls in any area and to advancing public awareness of the need for gender equality to achieve a just world |
data-sort-value="Kennedy" | | | Individuals around the world who show courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country |
data-sort-value="Letelier-Moffitt" | | | Advancing the cause of human rights in the Americas |
data-sort-value="Light of Truth" | | | NGO aiming for the promotion of democracy and human rights for the Tibetan people |
data-sort-value="Meany-Kirkland" | | | People and entities that fight for human rights in the field of labor relations |
data-sort-value="Merton" | | | National and international individuals struggling for justice |
data-sort-value="Philadelphia" | | | Leadership in the pursuit of freedom |
data-sort-value="Reebok" | | | Activists under the age of thirty who fought for human rights through non-violent means |
data-sort-value="Sakharov" | | | Outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights | |
Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
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Indonesia | data-sort-value="Yap Thiam Hien" | | Yayasan Pusat Studi Hak Asasi Manusia | Human rights in Indonesia since 1992 |
Israel | data-sort-value="Grunzweig" | | | Advancement of human rights in Israel |
Israel | data-sort-value="Jerusalem" | | | Writers who promote freedom of the individual in society |
Philippines | data-sort-value="Ka Pepe Diokno" | | | Persons or groups who exemplified their commitment to the furtherance of human rights, social justice, and Philippine sovereignty. |
South Korea | data-sort-value="Human Rights Korea " | | | Contribution to Korean and international human rights[5] |
Taiwan | data-sort-value="Asia Democracy" | | Taiwan Foundation for Democracy | Contributions through peaceful means to the development of democracy and human rights in Asia[6] | |