Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

Criteria

• A candidate should be active in the struggle for the ideals and principles underlying the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• A candidate’s struggle for human rights should represent a non-violent perspective.
• A candidate may be a person or an organization, and two or more candidates may share the prize.

Anyone with an interest in and knowledge about human rights is welcome to nominate candidates. Candidates nominated by themselves or by their staff or by honorary officers will not be taken into consideration.

How do I nominate?

Fill in the form below by clicking the blue “make a nomination”-button and attach required documents.

Deadline for nominations: 1 February.
Nominations received after 1 February will be taken into consideration for the Rafto Prize the following year.

Each year we announce the recipient of the Rafto Prize in the end of September at a press conference at the Rafto House in Bergen. The announcement is live streamed on our website and on Facebook.

For more on this and similar awards see: https://www.trueheroesfilms.org/thedigest/award/A5043D5E-68F5-43DF-B84D-C9EF21976B18

For questions regarding nominations, please contact the Secretary of the Committee, Sunniva Ingholm, e-mail: sunniva.ingholm@rafto.no

For last year’s winner see: https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/2020/09/25/rafto-prize-for-2020-goes-to-the-egyptian-commission-for-rights-and-freedoms-ecrf/

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This entry was posted on January 18, 2021 at 14:23 and is filed under awards, Human Rights Defenders.

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