University of Oslo's Human Rights Award honours individuals who have made important contributions in different fields. The award was launched in 1986 and since then, it is awarded every year to notable people from different walks of life. Those years when the award was not distributed are 1997, 1999, 2003, and 2004.
2014:
Fabrizio Gatti is an
Italian investigative
journalist and author. He received the award for his reports and books on the utilization and exploitation of desperate migrants traveling through the African desert, the Mediterranean Sea, drowning accidents and push-backs as refugees meetings of border guards and coast guards in their attempts to reach Europe.
2012: Robert Quinn and
Scholars at Risk. Rob Quinn is the founder and director of Scholars at Risk, which is a U.S.-based international network of academic institutions organized to support and defend the principles of
academic freedom and to defend the
human rights of scholars around the world. Robert Quinn at Scholars at Risk received the award for their efforts to promote academic freedom and to protect endangered academics.[6]
2011:
Nawal El Saadawi is an
Egyptianfeminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. she received the award for her active international involvement. Award Committee specially mentioned her efforts for women's social and intellectual freedom and their legal position.
2009:
Nils Johan Lavik was a
Norwegian professor of psychiatry. He received the award for his work for refugees in Norway, and to strengthen the knowledge and respect for human rights among physicians and health professionals.
2008:
Erik Møse is a Norwegian judge. He was the President of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2007. He received the award for his efforts and active international engagement for years to promote human rights
2002:
Asma Jahangir is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist, she got the prize for her fight against
honour killings in her home country, and her international work as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
2000:
Radhika Coomaraswamy is from
Sri Lanka, she is a director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, and the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and consequences.
1998:
Maria Paz Rojaz Baeza is a Chilean doctor and human rights activist, she got the prize for her work with torture victims and her involvement in human rights issues in South America
1996:
Felice Lieh Mak is a Chinese professor of psychiatry who got the award for the struggle against laws of discrimination (
forced abortion, mentally retarded) proposed by the Chinese authorities
1995:
Adem Demaçi Adem Demaçi (born 26 February 1936 in Pristina) is a Kosovo Albanian activist.
1994:
Kristian Ottosen got the prize for his lifetime work of documenting the fate of all Norwegians who were captured by the Nazis and incarcerated in Germany during World War II.
1993:
Gerhard Schoenberner got the prize For his activities to teach Germans about the terrors of the Nazis.
University of Oslo's Human Rights Award honours individuals who have made important contributions in different fields. The award was launched in 1986 and since then, it is awarded every year to notable people from different walks of life. Those years when the award was not distributed are 1997, 1999, 2003, and 2004.
2014:
Fabrizio Gatti is an
Italian investigative
journalist and author. He received the award for his reports and books on the utilization and exploitation of desperate migrants traveling through the African desert, the Mediterranean Sea, drowning accidents and push-backs as refugees meetings of border guards and coast guards in their attempts to reach Europe.
2012: Robert Quinn and
Scholars at Risk. Rob Quinn is the founder and director of Scholars at Risk, which is a U.S.-based international network of academic institutions organized to support and defend the principles of
academic freedom and to defend the
human rights of scholars around the world. Robert Quinn at Scholars at Risk received the award for their efforts to promote academic freedom and to protect endangered academics.[6]
2011:
Nawal El Saadawi is an
Egyptianfeminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. she received the award for her active international involvement. Award Committee specially mentioned her efforts for women's social and intellectual freedom and their legal position.
2009:
Nils Johan Lavik was a
Norwegian professor of psychiatry. He received the award for his work for refugees in Norway, and to strengthen the knowledge and respect for human rights among physicians and health professionals.
2008:
Erik Møse is a Norwegian judge. He was the President of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2007. He received the award for his efforts and active international engagement for years to promote human rights
2002:
Asma Jahangir is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist, she got the prize for her fight against
honour killings in her home country, and her international work as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
2000:
Radhika Coomaraswamy is from
Sri Lanka, she is a director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, and the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and consequences.
1998:
Maria Paz Rojaz Baeza is a Chilean doctor and human rights activist, she got the prize for her work with torture victims and her involvement in human rights issues in South America
1996:
Felice Lieh Mak is a Chinese professor of psychiatry who got the award for the struggle against laws of discrimination (
forced abortion, mentally retarded) proposed by the Chinese authorities
1995:
Adem Demaçi Adem Demaçi (born 26 February 1936 in Pristina) is a Kosovo Albanian activist.
1994:
Kristian Ottosen got the prize for his lifetime work of documenting the fate of all Norwegians who were captured by the Nazis and incarcerated in Germany during World War II.
1993:
Gerhard Schoenberner got the prize For his activities to teach Germans about the terrors of the Nazis.