Awards and Recognition
Due to his prominent work, Ansar Burney is widely recognised as the first man to introduce the concept of human rights in Pakistan.
In 1991, due to his extraordinary work and achievements in the field of human rights at a young age, particularly his efforts for prison reforms and release of innocent prisoners, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Person of the World Award by the Junior Chamber International (JCI).
Due to his outstanding achievements in the field of human and civil rights, Ansar Burney was the first man to receive the Pakistani National Civil Award Sitara-i-Imtiaz on 23 March 2002. This was the first occasion in the history of Pakistan that such an award was awarded in the field of human rights.
In recognition of his two decade long international campaign against human trafficking and to end child slavery in the Middle East in the form of child camel jockeys, Ansar Burney was declared an 'Anti-Human Trafficking Hero' by the then US Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and in the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report by the US State Department.
In 2008, due to his outstanding humanitarian work and efforts to improve people to people relations between Pakistan and India, Burney was awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial (International) Award by the Harmony Foundation in the field of Social Justice.
In 2011, due to his untiring efforts for the release of MV Suez and its crew from Somali Pirates and his great achievements in the field of human rights for the last three decades, Burney was awarded the prestigious MKRF award by the Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Foundation.
In 2012, in recognition of his humanitarian work in Pakistan and abroad, Burney was awarded the ‘Diamond’ award by the UK’s Secretary of State Rt. Hon. Cheryl Gillan MP on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
Ten years after receiving the civil award Sitar-i-Imtiaz, on 14 August 2012 the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari announced the civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz for Ansar Burney. He will receive this honour on 23 March 2013 at the Presidency in Islamabad.
Additionally, Ansar Burney has been the recipient of over 250 national and international awards over the last three decades.
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