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Civil Courage Prize

Index Civil Courage Prize

The Civil Courage Prize is a human rights award which recognizes "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor." The prize was founded in 2000 by the Northcote Parkinson Fund. [1]

48 relations: Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ali Salem, Aminatou Haidar, Andrew White (priest), Anna Politkovskaya, Arnold Tsunga, Claudia Paz y Paz, Denis Mukwege, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Douglas Hurd, Edward Streator, Emadeddin Baghi, Giovanni Falcone, Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar, John K. Menzies, John Train (investment advisor), Jon Meacham, Kopalasingham Sritharan, London, Lovemore Madhuku, Lydia Cacho, Michael Howard (historian), Michelle Bachelet, Min Ko Naing, Munir Said Thalib, Nataša Kandić, Neelan Tiruchelvam, New York City, Nguyễn Đan Quế, Paul Kamara, Paul Klebnikov, Phillip Buck, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, Rafael Marques (journalist), Rajan Hoole, Raoul Wallenberg, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, Rosemary Nelson, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, Shahnaz Bukhari, Soviet dissidents, Syria, Triveni Acharya, Vladimiro Roca, World War II, Yu Jie.

Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah

Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah (1949 or 1950 – January 19, 2004) was a humanities professor born in Basra, who became chairman of the Arab World Research and Studies Centre at Mustansiriya University and head of the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.

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Ali Salem

Ali Salem, also transliterated Ali Salim, (على سالم,; 24 February 1936 – 22 September 2015) was an Egyptian playwright, author, and political commentator known for controversially endorsing cooperation with Israel.

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Aminatou Haidar

Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar (أحمد علي حيدر أميناتو; born 24 July 1966), sometimes known as Aminetou, Aminatu or Aminetu, is a Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara.

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Andrew White (priest)

Andrew Paul Bartholemew White (born June 1964) was the vicar of St George's Church, Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq, until his departure, ordered in November 2014 by the Archbishop of Canterbury due to security concerns.

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Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (p; Га́нна Степа́нівна Політко́вська; née Mazepa; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist who reported on political events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).

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Arnold Tsunga

Arnold Tsunga is the Director of the Africa Regional Programme of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

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Claudia Paz y Paz

Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey (born ca. 1967) is the former Attorney General of Guatemala.

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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukengere Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.

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Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930) is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.

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Edward Streator

Edward Streator (born Edward Streator, Jr., on December 12, 1930 in New York City) is an American diplomat.

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Emadeddin Baghi

Emadeddin Baghi (born 25 April 1962) is an Iranian human rights activist, prisoners' rights advocate, investigative journalist, theologian and writer.

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Giovanni Falcone

Giovanni Falcone (18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.

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Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar

Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar is a judge and the president of one of Guatemala’s two High Risk Court Tribunals.

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John K. Menzies

Ambassador John K. Menzies (born 1948) was dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.

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John Train (investment advisor)

John Train (born 1928) is an American investment advisor and author.

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Jon Meacham

Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is a presidential historian.

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Kopalasingham Sritharan

Kopalasingham Sritharan is a Tamil Human Rights activist who along with Rajan Hoole ran the University Teachers for Human Rights while affiliated to the Department of Mathematics, University of Jaffna.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lovemore Madhuku

Lovemore Madhuku is a Zimbabwean politician and democracy activist.

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Lydia Cacho

Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born Mexico City, 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist.

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Michael Howard (historian)

Sir Michael Eliot Howard (born 29 November 1922) is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

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Michelle Bachelet

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who was the President of Chile twice, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, the first woman in her country to occupy this position.

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Min Ko Naing

Paw Oo Tun (ပေါ်ဦးထွန်း); better known by his alias Min Ko Naing, (lit. "conqueror of kings") is a leading democracy activist and dissident from Myanmar.

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Munir Said Thalib

Munir Said Thalib (8 December 1965 – 7 September 2004) was an Indonesian activists.

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Nataša Kandić

Nataša Kandić (Наташа Кандић; born in 1946) is a Serbian human rights activist and the founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organisation campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian role in conflict.

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Neelan Tiruchelvam

Neelakandan Tiruchelvam (நீலகண்டன் திருச்செல்வம்; 31 January 1944 – 29 July 1999) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic, politician and Member of Parliament.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nguyễn Đan Quế

Nguyen Dan Que, M.D. (Nguyễn Đan Quế; born April 1942) is a Vietnamese endocrinologist and pro-democracy activist in Saigon.

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Paul Kamara

Paul Kamara (born 12 August 1956) is a Sierra Leonean journalist, football manager, and cabinet minister.

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Paul Klebnikov

Brent Corley (Павел Юрьевич Хлебников; August 6, 1964 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist and historian of Russian history.

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Phillip Buck

Reverend Phillip Jun Buck is a Korean-American Christian missionary for Assemblies of God Korean District and an advocate for human rights in North Korea.

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Pierre Claver Mbonimpa

Pierre Claver Mbonimpa is a Burundian human rights activist.

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Rafael Marques (journalist)

Rafael Marques de Morais (born 1971) is an Angolan journalist and a proven political activist who received several international awards for his reporting on conflict diamonds and government corruption.

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Rajan Hoole

Michael Richard Ratnarajan Hoole (commonly known as Rajan Hoole) is a Sri Lankan Tamil mathematician, academic and human rights activist.

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Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (born 4 August 1912, death date unknown)He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed.

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Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently

Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS or RBSS) is a citizen journalist group reporting Syrian war news and human rights abuses by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other forces occupying the northern Syrian city of Raqqa which ISIL used as its de facto capital.

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Rosemary Nelson

Rosemary Nelson (née Magee; 4 September 1958 – 15 March 1999) was a prominent Irish human rights solicitor who was assassinated by an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in 1999.

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School of Diplomacy and International Relations

The School of Diplomacy and International Relations (SODIR), is a post-secondary, degree-granting institution concentrating on international affairs within Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

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Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States.

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Shahnaz Bukhari

Shahnaz Bukhari (or Bokhari) is a Pakistani clinical psychologist and women's rights activist.

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Soviet dissidents

Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features in the embodiment of Soviet ideology and who were willing to speak out against them.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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Triveni Acharya

Triveni Acharya is an Indian journalist and activist living in Mumbai, best known for her work with the anti-sex-trafficking group the Rescue Foundation.

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Vladimiro Roca

Vladimiro Roca Antúnez (born 21 December 1942, in Havana) is a Cuban dissident and leader of the illegal Cuban Social-Democratic Party.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yu Jie

Yu Jie, is a Chinese writer and democracy activist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Courage_Prize

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