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Awarded since 1985 The "LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE " "The award given by Lawyers to a Lawyer"
Nelson Mandela, first Prize winner in 1985
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The Ludovic -Trarieux award was created in 1984, in Bordeaux by President Bertrand FAVREAU and according to the Regulations was awarded every two years (See "Regulations") in memory of the French lawyer, Ludovic TRARIEUX, who in 1898, a hundred years ago, in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair, in France, founded the "French League for the Defence of Human Rights and the Citizen ", which is at the basis of all leagues set up in the world and on the same model since then.
The award is given to a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who, by his work, will have illustrated his activity or his suffering, the defence of human rights, of defence rights, the supremacy of law, the struggle against racism and intolerance in any form.
, after consulting humanitarian associations and NGOs.
The first "
LUDOVIC TRARIEUX PRIZE " was awarded by a panel of renowned human rights
activists on March 29th, 1985 to Nelson MANDELA, then in jail. It was
officially handed over to his daughter, Zenani DHLAMINI - MANDELA, on April
27th, 1985. On February 11th 1990, Nelson MANDELA was released. Since year 2003, the Prize is awarded every year in partnership with the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF THE BAR OF BORDEAUX, the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF THE BAR OF PARIS and the EUROPEAN BAR HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE (IDHAE).
The following is the list of prizewinners : 1985 Nelson MANDELA (South Africa) 1992 1994 1996 awarded jointly to Nejib HOSNI (Tunisia) and to Dalila MEZIANE (Algeria). 1998 2000 2002 2003 awarded jointly to Digna OCHOA (post mortem) and to Bárbara ZAMORA (Mexique). 2004 Aktham NAISSE (Syrie). 2005 Henri BURIN DES ROZIERS (Brazil). 2006 Parvez IMROZ (India). After Nelson MANDELA, in 1985, Najib HOSNI was the second prizewinner while in detention. His candidacy was put forward by the International Union of Lawyers (UIA)(Commission Defense de la Defense), the International Federation Action of Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT), the Centre of Information and Documentation on Torture-Tunisia (C.I.D.T.-TUNISIA), the " Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights " (New-York), Amnesty International, the American Bar Association (ABA), the Institute of Human Rights of the Bar of Paris, Human Rights Watch (Washington). Mrs. Dalila MEZIANE was the second woman, after Mrs. Jadranka CIGELJ, in 1994, to receive the Prize. Her candidacy was put forward by " European Legal Network on Asylum " (ELENA). 
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Since then, it has been decided to award the Prize every two years in conjunction with the HRIBB and the UAE " Human Rights" Committee (since 2001 the EUROPEAN BAR HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE (IDHAE) .
(Peru)
(Bosnia-Herzegovina)
(China)
(Turkey)
(Iran)
by special presidential pardon by President Ben ALI on December 14th 1996, three months after the ceremony award in Bordeaux where the prize had been handed over to his representative, Dr Helen JAFFE, President of AVRE.
The fifth Prize was awarded on May 25th 1998, to the Chinese lawyer ZHOU Guoqiang. After Nelson MANDELA and Nejib HOSNI, ZHOU Guoqiang was the third prizewinner not able to come to France in order to receive his Prize, as stipulated by the rules of the Prize. Because of the risks to his family and to himself, and notably that of being forced into exile, like many other Chinese dissidents prevented from going back to China if he left the territory to come and receive his Prize in France, ZHOU Guoqiang had no other choice but to mandate Mr. LIU Qing, Chairman of HUMAN RIGHTS in CHINA, who has been living in exile in New York since 1991, to go and receive the Prize in his name. Thus, the reward was given to him by M. Robert BADINTER on Friday 2nd October 1998 in the amphitheater of the National school of Judiciary (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature) in Bordeaux and on that occasion Mr LIU Qing read the speech written by ZHOU Guoqiang for the Ceremony award.
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Ugur Yagmurdereli reading the speech of his father.Photo BAP |
The sixth "LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE" was awarded on March 2th 2000, to the Turkish blind writer, lawyer, and human right activist, Esber Yagmurdereli, jailed since June 1998, for having expressed his views on the Kurdish issue.The Prize was given to the Prize winner's son, Mr. Ugur Yagmurdereli, on 29th September2000. Esber Yagmurdereli’ son Ugur Yagmurdereli received the prize on behalf of his father and read his father’s message and received the prize.(Click to see speeches.) |
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On May 23 2002, the jury of " Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize " awarded the Prize 2002 to the iranian lawyer Mehrangiz KAR, a human rights lawyer, writer, essayist, and former editor of the now-banned Zan literary review. Her work as an activist for women's rights often put her in conflict with Iranian authorities.
Kar has published widely on women's issues in Iran.
The Prize was presented in Paris on October 24th by Mr Guy Canivet, the President of the French Court of Cassation saying the Prize represented the recognition of France's highest jurisdiction instance for her unabated struggle for human rights, justice and freedom.
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Since 2003, the Prize is awarded every year in partnership withe the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF THE BAR OF BORDEAUX and the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF THE BAR OF PARIS.
On June 13, 2003 the 21 European lawyers members of the Jury of the "LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE 2003» meeting in Brussels Court’s House, awarded the eighth « Ludovic-Trarieux » 2003 jointly to
. Digna Ochoa y Plácido (post mortem) and to Bárbara Zamora Lopez.
The Jury called the Mexican authorities to ensure an effective, independent and thorough investigation into the killing of Digna Ochoa and expressed deep concern for the safety of Barbara Zamora and urged to give her immediately an appropriate protection.
The Prize was presented on October 3rd , 2003, in the Main Hall of the National School of the Judiciary of France in Bordeaux to Jesus Ochoa y plácido, brither of Digna Ochoa and to Bárbara Zamora by Jean Cruyplants, Chairman of the Brussels Bar Association.
The 21 European lawyers members of the Jury* of the
"LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE " meeting in
Paris House of Lawyers, on on April 26th 2004 awarded the nineth
" Ludovic-Trarieux " Prize to Aktham Naisse (written also Nu'aysa),
53 year old, a human rights defender and lawyer, chairman of the Committee
for the Defence of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria (CDF), and
Vice President of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, because of his
struggle for human rights in Syria At the risk of his own liberty. Aktham
Naisse presented the Prize in Brussels on October 8th from the hands of Court
of Cassation highest Judge, Premier President Michel LahousseIn the main
hearing room of the Court in the Law Courts' of Brussels (Belgium). And to learn more
: "The Ludovic Trarieux Prize on the Web" On May 23rd, 2005 the Jury of the "LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE » meeting in Paris Bar House awarded the tenth « Ludovic-Trarieux » Prize, created in 1984 (first prize winner Nelson Mandela then in jail) and awarded every year to a lawyer, to Henri Burin des Roziers, 75 years old, a lawyer and a Dominican. Since 1977, he lives and works in Brazil as a lawyer for the Pastoral Land Commission, the body that advocates the human rights of the rural workers
The Prize was presented by President Jean6maris BURGUBURU (Bâtonnier de l'Ordre des Avocats)on October 27th 2005, in Paris to Henri Burin des Roziers .(
More : The Ceremony Award 2003.
Presentation of the 2005 Award to Henri Burin des Roziers) More : the Ludovic Trarieux Prize on line
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