Bruno Kreisky Award

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The Bruno-Kreisky-Award is a biennial award created in October 1976 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Bruno Kreisky. The laureates are rewarded for their achievements in the field of human rights with the monetary award of between 3500 and 15 000 euros. The prizewinners are chosen by an international panel of judges.

[edit] Laureates

2006

Jürgen Habermas

2005

Nadja Lorenz and Georg Bürstmayr from Vienna for the advocacy of the asylum seekers' and migrants' rights in Austria
Andrei Sannikov from Belarus for his work within the Charta 97, a citizens' action group and human rights organisation from Minsk.

2002

Cardinal Franz König, the former achbishop of Vienna for his dedication to tolerance and dialogue
Ute Bock from Vienna for her commitment to helping refugees
Amira Hass from Tel Aviv/Ramallah for her outstanding and independent work in journalism;
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights from Gaza City, for its dedication to protecting human rights in the occupied Palestinean territories.

2000

Radhika Coomaraswamy from Sri Lanka, UN-Special Ambassador for the matters related to violence against women
Centre for Human Rights from Belgrade
Austrian NGO-project "Antidiskriminierungsgesetz"

1999