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[7] that won the 2023 UN Human Rights Prize. [8] Puentes Riaño teaches law at the Berta Cáceres Environmental Justice Clinic at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City [3] and her primary nationality has become Mexican. [2] She became the third special rapporteur looking at human rights and the environment in 2024.
The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly [1] in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments".
Country Award Sponsor Notes Libya: Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights: General People's Congress (Libya) International personalities, bodies or organizations that have distinctively contributed to rendering an outstanding human service and has achieved great actions in defending Human rights, protecting the causes of freedom and supporting peace everywhere in the world
Despite enduring numerous arrests and currently being behind bars, the 51-year-old activist has remained determined in her commitment to fight for human and civil rights in her home country.
Fridtjof Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, explorer, and League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [3] and the award was established in honour of his work to support refugees. [4] Van Heuven Goedhart felt that creating an award would increase the world's attention to the needs of refugees and increase global refugee aid.
In July 2023, during the 30th Meeting of the 53rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese presented a report accusing Israel of turning the West Bank into an open-air prison. The report said that since 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinians, including children as young as 12, had been arrested and detained by Israeli authorities.
In 2023 he led the Human Rights 75 initiative, to advance women's and children's rights, support climate change mitigation, and empower people with disabilities. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Türk promotes human rights as a solution to new challenges, such as the implications of digital technology on privacy and freedom of expression.
Bennett has served the United Nations as representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and head of the human rights components of peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and South Sudan, including twice in Afghanistan (2003–2007 and 2018–2019). For a time, he was an advisor to the Afghan Independent Human Rights ...