Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights

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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$[1] 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 was discontinued in 2011, after Gaddafi's overthrow during the Libyan civil war.

[edit] List of recipients

Year Recipient(s)
1989 Nelson Mandela[1][2]
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[2]
1997 Gracelyn Smallwood, Melchior Ndadaye, Melba Hernandez, Manal Younes Abdul-Razzak, Doreen McNally
1998 Fidel Castro[2]
1999 "The children of Iraq"
2000 Souha Bechara, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Evo Morales,[3] the Movement of September, the Third World Center
2002 Mamado Diaye, Roger Garaudy, Ibrahim Alkonie, Jean Ziegler (who turned the award down), [4] 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[2]
2005 Mahathir bin Mohamad[5]
2006 Evo Morales
2007 Libraries of Timbuktu[citation needed]
2008 Dom Mintoff[6]
2009 Daniel Ortega[7]
2010 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[8]

[edit] 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.[9][dead link]

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Prizes: And the Winner Is...". Time. 08-05-1989. Retrieved 24-10-2012. 
  2. ^ a b c d Bill Chappell (01-03-2011). "The Gadhafi Prize For Human Rights: In Its Final Year?". NPR. Retrieved 24-10-2012. 
  3. ^ http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/krise-in-der-arabischen-welt/boliviens-praesident-obama-sollte-friedensnobelpreis-aberkannt-werden_aid_611069.html
  4. ^ "Swiss human rights campaigner turns down "Kadhafi" award", Agence France-Press, 1 October 2002.
  5. ^ http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=167999
  6. ^ Massa, Ariadne (26 October 2008). "KMB picks up Gaddafi prize for Mintoff". The Times. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 
  7. ^ Ramírez, Pedro Ortega (23 December 2009). "Daniel recibe premio de Derechos Humanos Gaddafi". El 19. Retrieved 23 December 2009.  (Spanish)
  8. ^ Agence France-Presse (26 November 2010). "Turkish PM to receive Libyan rights award". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 27 November 2010. 
  9. ^ Libyan Stamps online
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