The Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights was established in 1998 by American president Bill Clinton to honor outstanding promoters of rights in the United States.
The award was first given on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the "driving force" in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The award was presented from 1998 to the end of the Clinton administration in 2001.
| Name | Year | Reason | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Founder of Human Rights Watch and retired chairman of Random House. | |||
| 1998 | Lifelong civil rights leader. | |||
| 1998 | Human rights activist, China scholar and novelist. | |||
| 1998 | Activist responsible for research and advocacy on human-rights violations against women. | |||
| 1999 | An international women's rights activist instrumental in securing the inclusion of gender and sexual orientation on the global human rights agenda. | |||
| 1999 | Cofounder and leader of the United Farm Workers of America and lifelong labor activist. | |||
| 1999 | Assistant Attorney General in the Kennedy administration. | |||
| 1999 | A Dominican nun who founded St. Rita's Immigrant and Refugee Center in the Bronx to service to victimized immigrants. | |||
| 1999 | Anti-apartheid activist and author of the Global Sullivan Principles promoting corporate social responsibility. | |||
| Tillie Black Bear | 2000 | A strong voice for Native American and women's rights and a leading advocate for victims of domestic violence. | ||
| 2000 | A lifetime of service to the civilian victims of conflict and disaster. | |||
| 2000 | Former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and chairman of the board of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now known as Human Rights First). | |||
| 2000 | Represented the Legal Defence Fund in landmark cases before the Supreme Court. | |||
| 2000 | Lifelong human rights advocate. | |||
| 2001 | Worked for the passage of human-rights legislation including the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and legislation on human trafficking. | |||
| 2001 | Engaged the Chinese government regarding human rights. | |||
| 2001 | Started a private initiative to help victims of communism following the fall of the Berlin Wall. | |||
| 2010 | Major figure in developing the study of human-rights law. | |||
| 2010 | Director of the Justice and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. | |||
| 2010 | Led the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. | |||
| 2010 | Program director for My Sister's Keeper, a private organization supporting women and girls in Sudan. | // |