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.
Laureates
2007
- Gao Zhisheng
- Jovan Mirilo
- Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit (see German Wikipedia article)
- Manfred Nowak
- Kofi Annan
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 Palestinian 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"
- Karlheinz Böhm
1999
1998
- Otto Tausig
- Willi Resetarits
- Abbas Amir Entezam
1996
1995
- Leyla Zana
- Sumaya Farhat Naser
- Uri Avnery
- Manfred Nowak director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (BIM)
1993
- Nicolae Gheorghe
1991
- Faisal Husseini
- Felicia Langer
- Erwin Kräutler
- Society for the threatened peoples (Austria)
- Paulinho Paiakan
1989
1987
1985
1983
1981
1979
- Hildegard Goss-Mayr,
- Ken Saro-Wiwa,
- Sergej Kowaljov
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