Reebok Human Rights Award Explained

Reebok Human Rights Award
Awarded For:	Given to activists under the age of thirty who fight for human rights through non-violent means
Sponsor:	Reebok
Presenter:	Reebok Foundation
Country:	United States
Year:	1988

The Reebok Human Rights Award honoured activists under the age of thirty who fought for human rights through non-violent means. Each year, the award was given to four or five individuals. Each received a grant of US $50,000 that was to be used to support their human rights work. The awards were underwritten by the Reebok Foundation.

Roots can be traced to 1988 when Amnesty International invited Reebok to sponsor Human Rights Now!, a series of worldwide music concerts.^[1]

• Vanita Gupta, United States
• Joênia Batista de Carvalho, Brazil
• Ahmad Nader Nadery, Afghanistan

2003

• Pedro Anaya, United States
• Anusuya (Oona) Chatterjee, United States
• Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah, Sierra Leone
• Ernest Guevara, Philippines
• Christian Mukosa, Democratic Republic of Congo

2002

• Kavwumbu Hakachima, Zambia
• Maili Lama, Nepal
• Malika Asha Sanders, United States

2001

• Ndungi Githuku, Kenya
• Heather Barr, United States
• Kodjo Djissenou, Togo
• Will Coley, United States

1999

• Juliana Dogbadzi, Ghana^[2]
• Tanya Greene, United States
• Suba Meshack, Kenya
• Ka Hsaw Wa, Burma

1998

• Abraham Grebreyesus, Eritrea
• Rana Husseini, Jordan
• Van Jones, United States
• Dydier Kamundu, Democratic Republic of Congo

1996

• Innocent Chukwuma, Nigeria
• Jesús Tecú Osorio, Guatemala
• Julie Su, United States
• Ma Thida, Burma
• Craig Kielburger, Canada

1995

• Angela Elizabeth Brown, United States
• Miguel Angel de los Santos Cruz, Mexico
• Richard Nsanzabaganwa, Rwanda
• Ven. Phuntsog Nyidron, Tibet
• Broad Meadows Middle School, United States

1994

• Adauto Alves, Brazil
• Rose-Anne Auguste, Haiti
• Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary (Backward Society Education), Nepal
• Iqbal Masih, Pakistan
• Samuel Kofi Woods, Liberia

1993

• Marie-France Botte, Belgium
• Sia Runikui Kashinawa, Brazil
• Hisham Mubarak, Egypt
• Reverend Carl Washington, United States

1992

• Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Zaire
• Fernando de Araujo, East Timor
• Stacy Kabat, United States
• Martin O'Brien, Northern Ireland

1991

• Mirtala Lopez, El Salvador
• Sauveur Pierre, United States
• Abubacar Sultan, Mozambique
• Carlos Toledo, Guatemala
• Ashley Black, United States

1990

• Jeffrey Bradley and Martin Dunn, United States
• Shawan Jabarin, West Bank^{[3] [4]}
• Tracye Matthews, United States
• Akram Mayi, Iraq
• David Moya, Cuba

1989

• Louise Benally-Crittenden, United States
• Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, United States
• Li Lu, Wang Dan, Chai Ling and Wu'erkaixi, China
• Mercedes Doretti and Luis Fondebrider, Argentina
• Dawat Lupung, Malaysia
• Bryan Stevenson, United States

1988

• David Bruce, South Africa
• Joaquin Antonio Caceres, El Salvador
• Janet Cherry, South Africa
• Arn Chorn-Pond, United States
• Tanya Coke, United States
• Lobsang Jinpa, Tibet
• Salim Abdool Karim, South Africa
• Winona LaDuke, United States
• Juan Pablo Letelier, Chile
• Maria Paz Rodriguez, United States
• Dalee Sambo, United States

External links

• (archived, 17 Feb 2007)

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070213025939/http://www.reebok.com/Static/global/initiatives/rights/history/index.html Our history
2. Web site: 2019-10-03. 'Wife of the Gods' Stirs Up Ghana. 24 June 1999. Los Angeles Times.
3. Web site: 2019-10-03. Honors for the Unsung Heroes of Human Rights. 21 December 1990. Los Angeles Times.
4. Web site: 2019-10-03. The Interview - Israeli and Palestinian NGOs receive controversial human rights award. 14 December 2018. France 24.