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INSTITUT DES DROITS DE L'HOMME DU BARREAU DE
BORDEAUX |
INSTITUT DES DROITS DE
L'HOMME DU BARREAU DE BRUXELLES |
INSTITUT DES DROITS DE L'HOMME
DU BARREAU DE PARIS |
INSTITUT DES DROITS DE L'HOMME DES AVOCATS
EUROPEENS |
UNIONE FORENSE PER LA TUTELA DEI DIRITTI
DELL'UOMO |
Ludovic-Trarieux International Human
Rights Prize 2010
Prix
International des droits de l'homme Ludovic-Trarieux 2010
Premio
Internacional de Derechos Humanos Ludovic Trarieux 2010
Internationalen
Ludovic-Trarieux-Menschenrechtspreis 2010
Prêmio Internacional de Direitos Humanos Ludovic Trarieux 2010
Premio Internazionale per i Diritti Umani Ludovic Trarieux 2010
Ludovic Trarieux Internationale Mensenrechtenprijs 2010
Depuis/Since/Desde/Dal 1984
“L’hommage des avocats à un avocat ”
“The award
given by lawyers to a lawyer”
“El homenaje de abogados a un abogado
”
“L'omaggio degli
avvocati ad un avvocato”
Karinna MOSKALENKO (RUSSIE) **
Prix International des droits de l'homme Ludovic-Trarieux 2010
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 ("The
award given by lawyers to a lawyer") to Mrs Karinna Moskalenko
(RUSSIE).
According to Prize regulations the award will be presented in October 2010.
Karinna Akopovna Moskalenko
earned
a degree in jurisprudence from Leningrad State University in 1976. Moskalenko's
belief in the Soviet system led her to pursue legal studies in the hope of
combating crime as a prosecuting attorney. However, during her studies
Moskalenko realized her interest lay in defending the rights of the accused.
Moskalenko completed a course in European law at Birmingham University in Great
Britain. Based on this and other professional experiences in Europe and Russia,
her legal specialization has developed into international public law,
specifically the international protection of human rights.
Karinna Moskalenko is recognized
internationally as one of Russia's most effective and courageous human rights
lawyers. She currently represents Garry Kasparov and the families of Alexander
Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya. She founded the International Protection
Center in 1995 to protect the human rights of defendants in Russia. Since then,
the Center has filed hundreds of cases before the ECHR and won important legal
victories on behalf of Russian citizens whose rights have been found to have
been violated by the Russian State. In apparent retaliation, Russian government
tax authorities accused the Center of failing to report grants and other
international contributions as ordinary income; as a result, the Center is
threatened with bankruptcy and closure.
Karinna Moskalenko has successfully tried
numerous human rights cases in Russia and abroad. Her caseload before the European Court for
Human Rights includes a wide variety of Russian human rights issues, ranging
from torture and disappearances in Chechnya to victims of the Nordost Theatre
siege in Moscow to the arrest and imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the
embattled former head of Russia's YUKOS Oil Co., who is now serving an eight
year prison sentence in Siberia for what Moskalenko argues are purely political
reasons.To
date, the European Court of Human Rights has issued 137 judgments on Chechen
cases holding Russia responsible for violating the right to life, the ban on
torture, and its other fundamental obligations under the European Convention on
Human Rights. The existing judgments pertain to the abuses perpetrated by federal
servicemen in the early years of the second Chechen war. The Russian Government
pays out monetary compensations to the victims, as required by the Court, but
fails to hold the actual perpetrators accountable even in those cases where
their identity is known, and does not take any measures to prevent similar
abuses from re-occurring. As a consequence today, law enforcement and security
agencies under President Ramzan Kadyrov's de facto control receive the message
that they will not be held accountable for human rights violations they commit.
New complaints from Chechnya are lodged with the European Court, increasing.
In addition to her work with the
International Protection Center in Moscow, Karinna Moskalenko is a Commissioner
of the International Commission of Jurists. She has been a member of the Moscow
Bar Association since 1993. She also is a member of the Expert Council for the
Plenipotentiary on Human Rights for the Russian Federation and the Moscow
Helsinki Group.
**Award not yet accepted.
According
to the regulations of the award, the Prize is regarded as definitively awarded
only if the member elected or a member of his family accepts it and comes to
receive it at the time of a ceremony from handing-over which is held this year
in October.
Created
in 1984, the "International Human Rights Prize Ludovic -Trarieux” is
awarded to " a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who thoroughout his
career has illustrated, by his activity or his suffering, the defence of human
rights, the promotion of defence rights, the supremacy of law, and the struggle
against racism and intolerance in any form ".
It is
the oldest and most prestigious award given to a lawyer in the world,
commemorating 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 ", because, he 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 Prize was awarded on March 29th, 1985 to Nelson Mandela then in jail. It
was officially presented to his daughter, Zenani Mandela Dlamini, on April 27th
1985, in front of forty presidents of Bars and Law Societies from Europe and
Africa. It was the first award given to Mandela in France and the first around
the world given by lawyers. On February 11th 1990, Nelson Mandela was released.
Since then, it was decided that the Prize would be awarded again.
Since
2003, the Prize is awarded every 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 the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA),
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.
1985:
Nelson MANDELA (South Africa)
1992:
Augusto ZÚÑIGA PAZ (Peru) †
1994:
Jadranka CIGELJ (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
1996
Nejib HOSNI (Tunisia) and Dalila MEZIANE (Algeria).
1998
ZHOU Guoqiang (China)
2000
Esber YAGMURDERELI (Turkey)
2002
Mehrangiz KAR (Iran)
2003
Digna OCHOA and Bárbara ZAMORA (Mexico)
2004: Akhtam NAISSE (Syria)
2005: Henri BURIN DES ROZIERS
(Brazil)
2006: Parvez IMROZ (India)
2007 :
René GÓMEZ MANZANO (Cuba)
2008 : U AYE MYINT (Burma)
2009 : Beatrice MTETWA (Zimbabwe)
