The Bruno Kreisky Award is a biennial award created in October 1976 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Bruno Kreisky

Bruno Kreisky

Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after World War II....

. The laureates are rewarded for their achievements in the field of human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

. The Award has been divided in 1993 into a human rights award (between 7000 and 30.000 Euros) and a prize in recognition of merit.
The Bruno Kreisky Foundation for Services to Human Rights http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights/englisch/foundation.htm has awarded in 14 conferments more than 130 individuals, institutions and human rights projects for outstanding services to the developement and protection of international human rights and extraordinary achievements in the area of humanitarian aid.
The prize winners are chosen both by the Board of Trustees of the Bruno Kreisky Foundation and by an international jury.

2011

• ASPIS
  Aspis
  "Aspis" is the generic term for the word shield. The aspis, which is carried by Greek infantry of various periods, is often referred to as a hoplon .According to Diodorus Siculus:-Construction:...
  
  , Austria http://aspis.uni-klu.ac.at/
• ESRA
  ESRA
  ESRA, as an initialism, stands for:*European Safety and Reliability Association*European Survey Research Association*European Software Radio Architecture*Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle...
  
  , Austria http://www.esra.at/
• Hemayat, Austria http://www.hemayat.org/

• Daniel Barenboim
  Daniel Barenboim
  Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
  
  , Israel/ Palestine, For his committment to reconciliation in the Middle East conflict
• West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, http://www.west-eastern-divan.org/

2007

• Gao Zhisheng
  Gao Zhisheng
  Gao Zhisheng is a Chinese human rights attorney and dissident known for defending activists and religious minorities and documenting alleged human rights abuses in China. Because of his work, Zhisheng has been disbarred and detained by the Chinese government several times and released...
  
  , China
• Manfred Nowak
  Manfred Nowak
  Manfred Nowak is an Austrian human rights lawyer.Nowak was a student of Felix Ermacora, and cooperated with him until Ermacora's death in 1995. They co-founded the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte in 1992...
  
  , Austria
• ZARA Austria (see German Wikipedia article)

• Kofi Annan
  Kofi Annan
  Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
  
  , United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• Jovan Mirilo, Serbia

2005

• Nadja Lorenz and Georg Bürstmayr, Austria for the advocacy of the asylum seekers' and migrants' rights in Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  
• Andrej Sannikov from Belarus
  Belarus
  Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
  
   for his work within the Charter 97
  Charter 97
  Charter 97 is a declaration calling for democracy in Belarus and a human rights group taking its inspiration from the declaration.The document - whose title deliberately echoes the Czechoslovak human rights declaration Charter 77 twenty years earlier - was created on the anniversary of a referendum...
  
  , a citizens' action group and human rights organisation from Minsk
  Minsk
  - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
  
  .

2002

• Cardinal Franz König
  Franz König
  Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958...
  
  , Austria, the former archbishop of Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
   for his dedication to tolerance and dialogue
• Ute Bock, Austria, for her committment to helping refugees
• Amira Hass
  Amira Hass
  Amira Hass is a prominent left-wing Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years.-Life:The daughter of...
  
  , Israel/Palestine, for her outstanding and independent work in journalism
  Journalism
  Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
  
  ;
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is an independent Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City, founded and directed by Raji Sourani...
  
   from Gaza/ Palestine, for its dedication to protecting human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.

2000

• Radhika Coomaraswamy
  Radhika Coomaraswamy
  Radhika Coomaraswamy is the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006...
  
  , Sri Lanka, UN-Special Ambassador for the matters related to violence against women
• The Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Jugoslavia
• Austrian NGO-project "An anti- discrimination law for Austria"
• Karlheinz Böhm
  Karlheinz Böhm
  Karlheinz Böhm is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell...
  
  , Austria/ Ethiopia

1997

• Abbas Amir-Entezam
  Abbas Amir-Entezam
  Abbas Amir-Entezam was the spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic...
  
  , Iran
• Emily Lau
  Emily Lau
  Emily Lau Wai-hing JP is one of two vice-chairmen of Democratic Party.She was the convenor of The Frontier...
  
  , Hongkong
• Uri Avnery
  Uri Avnery
  Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979–81...
  
  , Israel
• Ivan Zvonimir Čičak, Croatia
• Otto Tausig, Austria
• Willi Resetarits
  Willi Resetarits
  Wilhelm Resetarits , better known as Willi Resetarits and Dr. Kurt Ostbahn, is an Austrian singer, comedian and human rights activist....
  
  , Austria
• Österreichisches Netzwerk gegen Armut/ Austrian Network against poverty, Austria

1995

• Sumaya Farhat Naser
  Sumaya Farhat Naser
  Sumaya Farhat Naser is a Palestinian Christian peace activist in the West Bank.She attended Talitha Kumi, a boarding school in Beit Jala which was founded by Lutheran deaconesses in the 19th century...
  
  , Palestine
• Sergej Adamowitsch Kowaljow, Russia
• Ken Saro-Wiwa
  Ken Saro-Wiwa
  Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...
  
  , Nigeria
• Leyla Zana
  Leyla Zana
  Leyla Zana , is a Kurdish politician, who was imprisoned for 10 years for her political actions which were claimed to be against the unity of Turkey. When she was a member of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, she was banned from joining any political party for five years with the Constitutional...
  
  , Turkey

• Committee in defence of the human rights in Iran, Austria
• World University Service, Graz, Austria
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte is a research institute affiliated with the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, that specializes in the area of human rights. It was founded in 1992 by Felix Ermacora, Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter. Felix Ermacora served as its first director, as of...
  
  , Austria
• Refugee relief/ Flüchtlingshilfe Poysdorf, Austria
• The homeless shelter "Die Gruft" Austria
• Father August Janisch Austria

1993

• Abe J. Nathan, Israel
• The indigenous people of the Canela
  Canela
  Canela, meaning Cinnamon in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, is a town located in the Serra Gaúcha of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Both Canela and neighboring Gramado are important tourist resorts and they both draw many visitors each year. Ecotourism is very popular in the area and there are many...
  
  , Brazil
• Gani Fawehinmi
  Gani Fawehinmi
  Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, politician and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria .-Early life:Fawehinmi, popularly called Gani, was born on 22 April 1938, into the Fawehinmi...
  
  , Nigeria
• Nicolae Gheorghe, Rumania
• Christine Hubka and Gertrud Hennefeld, Austria
• Father Georg Sporschill,SJ, Rumania

• Kemal Kurspahić
  Kemal Kurspahic
  Kemal Kurspahić is a Bosnian Managing Editor of The Connection Newspapers in Alexandria, Va., USA and Chairman/Founder of the Media in Democracy Institute, dedicated to promoting higher standards in journalism in post-conflict societies and countries in transition to democracy...
  
   and Zlatko Dizdarević, Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Tanja Petovar, Jugoslavia
• Memorial
  Memorial
  A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, and even entire parks....
  
  , GUS
• Rudolf Pichlmayr, Germany
• Martha Kyrle, Austria
• SOS Mitmensch, Austria
• Croatian-Muslim-Serbian-Dialogue, Austria

1991

• Bärbel Bohley
  Bärbel Bohley
  Bärbel Bohley was an East German opposition figure and artist. In 1983 she was expelled from the GDR artists federation and was banned from travelling abroad or exhibiting her work in East Germany. She was accused of having contacts to the West German Green Party.In 1985 she was one of the...
  
  , Germany
• Congress of the South African Trade Unions, South Africa
• Yael Dayan
  Yael Dayan
  Yaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and is currently the chair of Tel Aviv city council. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan.-Biography:...
  
  , Israel
• Faisal Husseini
  Faisal Husseini
  Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people....
  
  , Palestine
• International Center for Peace in the Middle East, Israel/ Palestine
• İnsan Hakları Derneği
  Insan Haklari Dernegi
  The Human Rights Association is an NGO for advancing Human rights in Turkey, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Ankara.- History :...
  
  , Turkey
• Horst Kleinschmidt, South Africa/ Great Britain
• Committee Cap Anamur, Germany
• Felicia Langer
  Felicia Langer
  Felicia Langer is an Israeli human rights attorney known for her defense of Palestinians charged with political violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has also authored several books alleging human rights violations on the part of Israeli authorities. In July 2009, German President...
  
  , Israel
• Paulinho Paiakan Kayapoo, Brazil
• Standing Committee for National Dialogue, El Salvador
• Poznán Human Rights Center, Poland
• Dschalal Talabani, Syria/ Irak
• Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa, Colombia
• Anti-Apartheid Movement
  Anti-Apartheid Movement
  Anti-Apartheid Movement , originally known as the Boycott Movement, was a British organization that was at the center of the international movement opposing South Africa's system of apartheid and supporting South Africa's Blacks....
  
  , Austria
• CARE, Austria
• Social Services at Schwechat Airport, Austria
• Liesl Frankl, Austria
• Association of Women's solidarity, Austria
• Society for the Endangered Peoples, Austria
• Bishop Erwin Kräutler
  Erwin Kräutler
  Erwin Kräutler C.Pp.S is an Austro-Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop and the current prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Xingu....
  
  , Brazil
• The Austrian Red Cross, Austria
• Sciencestore at the University of Linz, Austria
• Aid Committee for Refugees in Austria, Austria

1988

• Frei Betto
  Frei Betto
  Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, O.P., better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologist and Dominican friar. He was imprisoned for four years by the military dictatorship for smuggling people out of Brazil...
  
  , Brazil
• Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
  
  , Pakistan
• Latif Dori / Committee for Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue founded by Israelis of Oriental Origin, Israel
• Anton Lubowski
  Anton Lubowski
  Anton Theodor Eberhard August Lubowski was a Namibian advocate and SWAPO member assassinated by operatives of South Africa’s Civil Cooperation Bureau.-Education and early life:...
  
  , Namibia
• Sergio Ramírez Mercado, Nicaragua
• Claudia Vilanek, Austria
• Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba, Ecuador
• The Society of Friends of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer, Austria
• The Society for Austrian-Arab Relations, Austria
• Greenpeace
  Greenpeace
  Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
  
  , Austria
• The Guatemalan Human Rights Organisation GAM
  GAM
  was a Japanese pop unit under the Hello! Project umbrella consisting of Aya Matsuura and Miki Fujimoto. This pairing was announced mid June 2006. Previously, Matsuura and Fujimoto worked together in the one-off group Gomattou with Maki Goto...
  
  , Guatemala
• International Helsinki Federation, Austria
• Justitia et Pax, Korea
• Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam, Israel
• Catholic Social Academy Austria, Austria
• The Committee for Social and Medical Aid for Palestinians, Austria
• Unidad Nacional de Trabajadores Salvadoreños, El Salvador
• The Association for the History of the Labour Movement
  Labour movement
  The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour...
  
  , Austria

1986

• The Bruno Kreisky
  Bruno Kreisky
  Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after World War II....
  
   Archives Foundation, Austria
• The Vienna Institute for Developement and Cooperation, Austria
• Herbert Amry, Austria
• The Austrian Institute for Peace Research and Education, Austria
• The Committee of Mothers of Political Prisoners, the Disappeared and Murdered in El Salvador, El Salvador
• The Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, Guatemala
• The Austrian Board for Refudee Aid, Austria
• International Historians of the Labour Movement, ITH
  Ith
  The Ith is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands which is up to high. It lies about 40 km southwest of Hanover and, at 22 kilometres, is the longest line of crags in North Germany.- Geography :- Location :...
  
  
• Jewish-Arab House in Beth Berl, Israel
• Erich Weisbier, Austria

1984

• The Austrian Aid Committee for Nicaragua, Austria
• The Austrian Volkshilfe, Austria
• The Austrian League for Human Rights, Austria
• Union of Concerned Scientists
  Union of Concerned Scientists
  The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. James J...
  
  
• The Society of Friends of Tel Aviv University
  Tel Aviv University
  Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
  
  , Austria
• Vicaría de la Solidaridad, Chile
• Oswald Amstler, Austria
• Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, USA
• Muzaffer Saraç, Turkey
• Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni
  Shulamit Aloni is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993.-Biography:...
  
  , Israel
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.A founding member of the Workers' Party , he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as...
  
  , Brazil
• Father Leopold Ungar, Austria
• Yolanda Urízar Martínez de Aguilar, Guatemala
• Marianella García Villas, El Salvador

1981

• Simha Flapan
  Simha Flapan
  Simha Flapan was an Israeli historian and politician. He was the author of The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities.He is probably best known for his book The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities, published in the year of his death....
  
  , Israel
• Raymonda Tawil, Israel
• Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
  , South Africa
• Rosa Jochmann, Austria
• Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Bolivia
• Enrique Álvarez Córdoba, El Salvador
• Kim Chi-ha
  Kim Chi-Ha
  Kim Ji-ha is a Korean poet and playwright. He was a dissident under the Park regime. After accusing the regime of extracting false confessions with the use of torture, he was tried and sentenced to death, which was commuted to a life sentence and eventual release following a public outcry...
  
  , South Korea
• Kim Dae Jung
  Kim Dae Jung
  Kim Dae-jung was President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He came to be called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia" for his long-standing opposition to authoritarian rule.-Early life:...
  
  , South Korea
• Histadrut
  Histadrut
  HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael , known as the Histadrut, is Israel's organization of trade unions. Established in December 1920 during the British Mandate for Palestine, it became one of the most powerful institutions of the State of Israel.-History:The Histadrut was founded in...
  
  , Israel
• Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne, France
• Orlando Fals Borda
  Orlando Fals Borda
  Orlando Fals Borda was a Colombian researcher and sociologist, one of the most important Latin American thinkers, and one of the founders of participatory action research. Together with Father Camilo Torres Restrepo, in 1959 he set up the first sociology faculty in Latin America at the National...
  
  , Columbia
• Felix Ermacora
  Felix Ermacora
  Felix Ermacora was the leading human rights expert of Austria and a member of the Austrian People's Party...
  
  , Austria

1979

• Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, Chile
• Arie Lova Eliav, Israel
• Issam Sartawi
  Issam Sartawi
  Dr Issam Sartawi was a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization .-Medical background:Issam Sartawi attended university in Baghdad, graduating in medicine, before specializing in cardiology and getting his MD in the United States.-Politics:Sartawi returned to Palestine in 1967, joined...
  
  , Palestine
• Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo
  Miguel Obando y Bravo
  Miguel Obando y Bravo is a Nicaraguan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Managua from 1985 until his resignation on 12 March 2005. On 25 May 1985, he was selected by Pope John Paul II to be cardinal in Central America...
  
  , Nicaragua
• Hildegard Goss-Mayr
  Hildegard Goss-Mayr
  Hildegard Goss-Mayr is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian.-Life and commitment:Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, she studyed Philosophy in Vienna and New Haven.In 1958, she married Jean Goss , a French...
  
   and Jean Goss
  Jean Goss
  Jean Goss was a French nonviolent activist.- Youth and conversion :Son of an Opera barytone, who lost his voice during the First World War, Jean Goss was forced to work since the age of de 12 in Paris, before to be hired in a French railway Company in 1937...
  
  , Austria/France
• Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, South Africa
• Amnesty International Group II, Austria
• Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
  
  , Austrian Section
• Committee for Human Rights, International Trade Union, Austria

Content/ Links

• Bruno Kreisky Archives, Vienna, Austria

http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights/englisch/foundation.htm
http://www.kreisky.org/start_net.htm