Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights

Nelson Mandela and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria are among the recipients of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize

The Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights was an annual prize founded by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1988.

Gaddafi made an initial grant of ten million US$^{[citation needed]} to the Swiss-based foundation North-South which later administered the prize. The sum of the prize money was US$250,000 (in case of several recipients the prize money was shared).

The prize attracted controversy over some of its selections (such as Roger Garaudy).

List of recipients

Year	Recipient(s)
1989	Nelson Mandela[citation needed]
1990	"The children of Palestine"
1991	The indigenous peoples of the Americas
1992	The African Centre for Combating AIDS
1993	"The children of Bosnia and Herzegovina"
1994	The Union of Human Rights Societies and Peoples in Africa
1995	Ahmed Ben Bella, Francisco da Costa Gomes
1996	Louis Farrakhan
1997	Gracelyn Smallwood, Melchior Ndadaye, Melba Hernandez, Manal Younes Abdul-Razzak, Doreen McNally
1998	Fidel Castro
1999	"The children of Iraq"
2000	Souha Bechara, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Evo Morales, the Movement of September, the Third World Center
2002	Mamado Diaye, Roger Garaudy, Ibrahim Alkonie, Jean Ziegler (who turned the award down), Nadeem Albetar, Ali M. Almosrati, Khaifa M. Attelisie, Mohamed A. Alsherif, Ali Fahmi Khshiem, Rajab Muftah Abodabos, Mohamed Moftah Elfitori, Ali Sodgy Abdulgader, Ahmed Ibrahim Elfagieh
2003	Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
2004	Hugo Chávez
2005	Mahathir bin Mohamad[citation needed]
2006	?
2007	Libraries of Timbuktu[citation needed]
2008	Dom Mintoff
2009	Daniel Ortega
2010	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Postage stamps issue

The Libyan Posts (General Posts and Telecommunications Company, GPTC) dedicated a postage stamps issue to Ghadafi Prize for Human Rights in 1994 (date of issue December 31). The issue consists of a minisheet with sixteen stamps.

Each horizontal strip of four stamps is dedicated to a particular subject:

• Nelson Mandela
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Intifada in Palestine