Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
The Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize is a human rights award established in memory of Thorolf Rafto and awarded annually by the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights.
The laureates are selected on the following criteria:
A recipient should be an active participant in the struggle for the ideals and principles underlying the Human Rights Charter, or be an embodying symbol of these. A recipient may be a person or an organisation, and two or more recipients may share the prize.
Four of the recipients have later been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
List of recipients
- 1987 – Jiří Hájek, Czechoslovakia
- 1988 – Trivimi Velliste, Estonia
- 1989 – Two awards: Doina Cornea, Romania and FIDESZ, Hungary
- 1990 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma
- 1991 – Jelena Bonner, Russia
- 1992 – Preah Maha Ghosananda, Cambodia
- 1993 – The people of East Timor, represented by José Ramos Horta
- 1994 – Leyla Zana, Turkey
- 1995 – Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia
- 1996 – Palermo Anno Uno, Italy
- 1997 – The Romani people, represented by Ian Hancock.
- 1998 – ECPAT, Thailand
- 1999 – Gennady Grushevoy, Belarus
- 2000 – Kim Dae-Jung, South Korea
- 2001 – Shirin Ebadi, Iran
- 2002 – Mohammed Daddach, Western Sahara
- 2003 – Paulos Tesfagiorgis, Eritrea
- 2004 – Rebiya Kadeer, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
- 2005 – Lidiya Yusupova, Chechnya, Russia.
- 2006 – Thich Quang Do ,Vietnam