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Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize
Prix International des droits de l'homme Ludovic-Trarieux
Premio Internacional de Derechos Humanos
Ludovic Trarieux
Internationalen
Ludovic-Trarieux-Menschenrechtspreis
Prêmio Internacional de Direitos Humanos Ludovic Trarieux
Premio Internazionale per i Diritti Umani Ludovic Trarieux
Ludovic Trarieux Internationale Mensenrechtenprijs
"The
international tribute from Lawyers to a Lawyer"
“L’hommage des avocats à un avocat ”
“El homenaje de abogados a un abogado
”
“L'omaggio degli
avvocati ad un avvocato”
The Ludovic Trarieux Lawyers Award
Depuis/Since/Desde/Dal 1984
For 25 years
"The most prestigious Prize awarded to a lawyer in Europe"
Nelson Mandela, first Prize winner in 1985 Version pdf
The "Ludovic-Trarieux Human Right award" is the oldest and most prestigious award given to a lawyer in the world, since it as its source in 1898, with the memory of the French lawyer, Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904), who in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair, in France, in 1898, founded the " 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. Created in 1984, in Bordeaux by
President Bertrand FAVREAU, the Prize is awarded each year 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 NGO. Evoking the reasons of his commitment
to the DREYFUS cause, Ludovic TRARIEUX said: " IT WAS NOT ONLY THE SINGLE
CAUSE OF A MAN WHICH WAS TO
BE DEFENDED, BUT BEHIND
THIS CAUSE, LAW, JUSTICE, HUMANITY
". The first " LUDOVIC TRARIEUX
PRIZE " was awarded on March 29th 1985 to Nelson MANDELA, then in jail. On February 11th 1990, Nelson
MANDELA was released. Since then, it has been decided to award the Prize. The Prize awarded each year in partnership by the Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Bordeaux, the Human Rights Institute of the Bar of Paris, the Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Brussels, l'Unione forense per la tutela dei diritti dell'uomo (Roma) and the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) whose members are the biggest european law societies fighting for human rights such as Rechtsanwaltskamme Berlin, Ordre français des Avocats du barreau de Bruxelles, barreau de Luxembourg or Polish National Council of the Bar (Warsaw). It is presented every year in a city that is home to one of the member Institutes. The following
is the list of prize-winners :
Always imitated, never equalled since 1984, the Prize is designated every year following the deliberation of a jury organized by the Institutes that have signed of the Convention. The award is composed of a medallion effigy of LUDOVIC TRARIEUX with the name of the laureate and an amount of 10000 Euros for 2010 (ten thousand Euros). No one may claim to be laureate of the Prize until the presentation has been officially made. The laureate is invited to attend the award ceremony, with expenses for two persons for travel to and lodgement of three days including a night from Saturday to Sunday, paid by the Institute in charge with the Prize winning ceremony, usually organized in October.
1984-1985 Nelson MANDELA
(South Africa) 1986 Not awarded 1988 Not awarded 1990 Not awarded 1992 Augusto ZÚÑIGA PAZ (Peru) † 1994 Jadranka CIGELJ (Bosnia-Herzegovina) 1996 divided equally between Nejib HOSNI (Tunisia)
and 1998 ZHOU Guoqiang (China) 2000 Esber YAGMURDERELI (Turkey) 2002 Mehrangiz KAR (Iran) 2003 divided equally between Digna OCHOA # # (exceptionnaly
post mortem) 2004 Aktham NAISSE (Syrie) 2005 Henri BURIN des ROZIERS (Brazil) 2006 Parvez IMROZ (India) 2007 René GÓMEZ MANZANO (Cuba) 2008 2009 Beatrice MTETWA (Zimbabwe) 2010
It was officially handed over to his daughter, Zenani
Mandela Dlamini, on April 27th 1985. 
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In a meeting on June 11 2010 In Council Room of
the Bar of Brussels, the Jury of 21 european lawyers awarded the 15th
International Human Rights Prize "Ludovic Trarieux" 2010. Photo Benoît Féron.(c) Barreau de Bruxelles.
Dalila MEZIANE (Algeria).
and Bárbara ZAMORA (Mexico).