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Ludovic-Trarieux International-Human Rights Prize 2019 Prix
International des Droits de l'Homme Ludovic-Trarieux 2019 Premio Internacional de Derechos
Humanos Ludovic Trarieux 2019 Premio Internazionale
per i Diritti Umani Ludovic Trarieux 2019 Internationalen Ludovic-Trarieux-Menschenrechtspreis 2019 Prêmio Internacional de Direitos
Humanos Ludovic Trarieux 2019 Ludovic Trarieux Internationale Mensenrechtenprijs 2019 Depuis/Since/Desde/Dal/Sinds 1984 “The tribute by
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” “Die Hommage von
Anwälten zu einem Anwalt” « De award gegeven door
advocaten aan een advocaat » "The
International tribute from Lawyers to a Lawyer" The XXIVth International
Human Rights Prize "Ludovic-Trarieux" 2019 attributed to « Ludovic-Trarieux"
Prize 2019 » Rommel DURAN CASTELLANOS COLOMBIA The XXIVth
International Human Rights Prize "Ludovic-Trarieux" 2019 was awarded
on May 27, 2019, at the Palace of Justice in BRUSSELS to the Colombian lawyer
Rommel Durán Castellanos, 33, president of the Equipo Juridico Pueblos (EJP), in
addition to being a volunteer of the Committee for Solidarity with Political
Prisoners (CSPP), in Bucaramanga, in the department of Caesar. The Jury composed of 28
European Jury members, representing the Bars of Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona,
Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cracow, Geneva, Luxembourg, Paris, Rome, Bologna,
Venice etc. said that over the past two decades, Rommel Durán
has courageously farming communities who are claiming the restitution of their
lands and victims of such crimes as enforced disappearance, torture and
extrajudicial executions, perpetrated by paramilitary groups. The Jury said
:”Rommel Durán himself also faces very serious
threats to his life due to his work as a lawyer and is subject to harassment,
including to a campaign of threats, attacks and stigmatization because of his
work. He been shot at by armed men during an incident
in December 2013 while attempting to verify the state of the community’s
crops.” The Tribute of the world's
lawyers to the winner of the 2019 Prize is to take place on 8 November 2019 in
LUXEMBOURG on the occasion of the 63rd Congress of the International Union of
Lawyers (UIA). Since 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
". 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), Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin, the Bar of
Luxemburg, the Bar of Geneva, the Bar of Amsterdam as well as the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), and the European Bar
Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) whose members are the biggest european law societies fighting for human rights. It is
presented every year in a city that is home to one of the member Institutes. 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. The 23rd Prize
was awarded in 2019 to the Iranian lawyer Nasrin
SOTOUDEH sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. The following is the list of prize winners : 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) 2010
: Karinna MOSKALENKO (Russia) 2011
: Fethi TERBIL (Libya) 2012
: Muharrem ERBEY (Turkey) 2013
: Vadim KURAMSHIN (Kazakhstan) 2014
: Mahienour el-MASSRY (Egypt) 2015
: Waleed Abu al-KHAIR (Saudi Arabia) 2016:
WANG Yu (China)-Rejected 2017 : Mohammed al-ROKEN (United
Arab Emirates) 2018 : Nasrin SOTOUDEH
(Iran)
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