Victor Gollancz Prize

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]

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