North–South Prize

Annual human rights award from the Council of Europe

The North–South Prize is awarded annually by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe to two public figures who are recognised for their deep commitment, outstanding achievements and hope they have generated in the field of protection of human rights, the defence of pluralist democracy and North-South partnership and solidarity. The prize originated in 1995 and it is sometimes known as the Lisbon North–South Prize.

## Contents

* 1 Call for candidates and selection
* 2 Candidate selection criteria
* 3 North-South Prize Jury
* 4 The winners
* 5 External links
* 6 References

## Call for candidates and selection[edit]

The "quadrilogue" (made up of governments, members of parliament, local and regional authorities, and non-governmental organisations from civil society) involved in overseeing the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, along with media representatives and international and regional government organisations, are urged to name individuals or an organisation whose activities are considered worthy of distinction. The call for candidates is made on its website and its Newsletters. The Centre's partners are similarly asked to inform their respective media organs. The file is sent for review to each member of the jury. After studying the files, the North–South Prize Jury makes a final decision on the candidates.

## Candidate selection criteria[edit]

The Prize is awarded to a candidate from the North (Central and Northern Europe) and one from the South (Southern Mediterranean countries and Africa), preferably to a man and a woman. Candidates should be recognised within the following fields of action: human rights protection, defence of pluralist democracy, promotion of public awareness about issues concerning global solidarity and interdependence, and reinforcement of the North-South partnership. Candidates may be nominated for their achievements within the cultural, institutional and political fields.

## North-South Prize Jury[edit]

The North–South Prize Jury is composed of the Members of the Bureau of the North-South Centre and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, under the presidency of the Chairman of the Executive Council of the North-South Centre. The Jury is helped in its task by the Secretariat of the North-South Centre.

## The winners[edit]

Year  | Recipients  | Country

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1995  | Peter Gabriel | United Kingdom
Vera Duarte | Cape Verde
1996  | Danielle Mitterrand | France
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1997  | Mary Robinson | Ireland
Patricio Aylwin | Chile
1998  | Graça Machel | Mozambique
Lloyd Axworthy | Canada
1999  | Emma Bonino | Italy
Abderrahmane Youssoufi | Morocco
2000  | Marguerite Barankitse | Burundi
Mário Soares | Portugal
2001  | Maria de Nazaré Gadelha Ferreira Fernandes | Brazil
Cornelio Sommaruga | Switzerland
2002  | Albina du Boisrouvray | France
Xanana Gusmão | East Timor
2003  | Frene Ginwala | South Africa
António de Almeida Santos | Portugal
2004  | Nawal El Saadawi | Egypt
Stéphane Hessel | France
2005  | Bogaletch Gebre | Ethiopia
Bob Geldof | Ireland
2006  | Mukhtaran Bibi | Pakistan
Francisco Van Der Hoff | Netherlands
2007  | Kofi Annan | Ghana
Simone Veil | France
2008  | Jorge Sampaio | Portugal
Rania al-Abdullah | Jordan
2009  | Mikhail Gorbachev | Russia
Rola Dashti | Kuwait
2010  | Louise Arbour | Canada
Lula da Silva | Brazil
2011  | Boris Tadić | Serbia
Souhayr Belhassen | Tunisia
2012  | Monika Hauser | Switzerland
Asma Jahangir | Pakistan
2013  | Aga Khan IV | United Kingdom
Suzanne Jabbour | Lebanon
2014  | Maura Lynch | Ireland
André Azoulay | Morocco
2015  | Lora Pappa | Greece
Joaquim Alberto Chissano | Mozambique
2016  | Giuseppina Nicolini | Italy
Mbarka Brahmi | Tunisia
2017  | Kristiina Kumpula | Finland
Abbas Gullet | Kenya
2018  | Jaha Mapenzi Dukureh | Gambia
Damien Carême | France
2019  | Nabila Hamza  | Tunisia
Leoluca Orlando | Italy
2020[1] | Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC)  |
International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP)  |

## External links[edit]

* North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
* Publications of the North-South Prize Award Ceremony

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The 2020 Prize is awarded to the International Commission against the Death Penalty and The Network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC) of the Union for the Mediterranean". 14 December 2020.