Awards For Human Rights Defenders
- The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1998.
- The Martin Ennals Award, a collaboration of several human rights NGOs. Martin Ennals was a renowned human rights defender and secretary general of Amnesty International. Its secretariat is located at the OMCT office in Geneva. The awardee of the Martin Ennals Award is granted at least 20,000 Swiss Francs (about 20,000 US dollars) to be used for further work in the field of human rights.
- The human rights defender award is the highest award of Human Rights Watch
- The Human Rights Defenders Tulip was established by the Netherlands government in 2008.
- Imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"
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