Free Your Mind (MTV award)
Free Your Mind is an award being granted by MTV during its shows all over the world in order to sensitize spectators in touchy matters, the social meat and potatoes, human rights violations, of political and civil laws, promoting the environmental protection in the process non-governmental organizations as well as individuals which are dealing with the given subject matter. The granted award is also involving the financial assistance and the media campaign promoting the winner on all aerials of MTV channels.
MTV Europe Music Awards
| Year | Recipient | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Amnesty International | for preventing and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated. |
| 1995 | Greenpeace | for their campaign against underground nuclear testing. |
| 1996 | The Buddies and Carers of Europe | for support their HIV-positive friends. |
| 1997 | Landmine Survivors Network | for helping survivors to recover from war, rebuild their communities, and break cycles of violence. |
| 1998 | B92 | for the journalism and fighting for human rights. |
| 1999 | Bono | for his world peace work. |
| 2000 | Otpor! | for their role in the successful overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000. |
| 2001 | Treatment Action Campaign | for doing extraordinary work around HIV/AIDS in South Africa. |
| 2002 | FARE | for counter racism and xenophobia in European football. |
| 2003 | Aung San Suu Kyi | for leading the Burmese democracy movement. |
| 2004 | La Strada | for the organization's dedication to the fight against the trafficking of women and girls in Europe. |
| 2005 | Bob Geldof | for his charity work organizing the Live 8 concerts. |
| 2007 | Anton Abele | for his work against street violence following Riccardo Campogiani's death. |
| 2009 | Mikhail Gorbachev | for his involvement in the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| 2010 | Shakira | for her continuing dedication to improve access to education for all children around the world. |
MTV Australia Awards
| Year | Recipient | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | AusAID | for the efforts of over 400 AusAID funded Australian aid workers to tsunami-affected countries. |
| 2006 | Peter Garrett |
MTV Russia Music Awards
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2004 | Vladimir Posner |
| 2005 | Valery Gazzaev |
| 2006 | Crew of the sailfish "Kruzenshtern" |
MTV Romania Music Awards
| Year | Recipient | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Matei-Agathon Dan | for the Romanian seaside in 2002. |
| 2004 | McCann Erickson | for change the situation of Roma communities in Romania through an information and awareness campaign. |
| 2006 | United Nations | for the work of the UNDP project "Support to Training of Public Managers through Romanian Government Special Scholarships”. |
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