Victor Gollancz Prize Explained

The Victor Gollancz Prize is an international human rights prize awarded by the Society for Threatened Peoples. It is named for British humanitarian Sir Victor Gollancz.^[1]

The prize is awarded in Göttingen.

Laureates

• 2000: The society Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their work to identify the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide
• 2001: Zainap Gaschajewa and Lipkan Basajewa, Chechnya, for their humanitarian work and documenting of crimes in Chechnya
• 2003: The Society of Former Female Bosnian Concentration Camp Prisoners, Bosnia-Hercegovina, for their humanitarian work for the survivors of the Serb concentration camps and organized war rape campaigns, and the Widows of Barzan-Tal, Iraq, for their work for the families of the victims of the Barzan-Tal massacre
• 2004: Libkan Basaeva, Chechnya
• 2005: Sergei Kovalev, Russia, for his documenting of Russian crimes in Chechnya and his work within the Memorial organization, and Mustafa Dzhemilev, for his work for the Crimean Tatars
• 2008: Halima Bashir, West Sudan/Darfur, for her work for the people of Darfur, and Jovan Divjak, for humanitarian work for children in Sarajevo
• 2009: Memorial, Russia^{[2] [3]}
• 2014: Bernard Kouchner, former French foreign minister and co-founder of Doctors without Borders, in recognition of his "lifelong, unwavering commitment to fight crimes against humanity"^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home - Victor-Gollancz-Grundschule. victor-gollancz-grundschule.de.
2. Web site: Waynakh Online » Memorial Received the Victor Gollancz Prize. www.waynakh.com.
3. Web site: Chechnyan President forces Victor Gollancz Prize-winner Oleg Orlov to face a court hearing . 2014-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140715010214/http://www.gfbv.de/pressemit.php?id=2083&PHPSESSID=25a310a9ab503fc65104633626cb1ad5 . 2014-07-15 . dead .
4. http://www.gfbv.de/inhaltsDok.php?id=2783 Invitation to the awarding of the "Victor Gollancz Prize" to Bernard Kouchner