This is the website for the “Life-time Human Rights Achievement Award”, an honorary, posthumous award for individuals who have greatly contributed to the international human rights system but have been ‘forgotten’ by other awards. Attributed in exceptional cases by the Ad Hoc Committee for recognition of forgotten human rights heroes, created in April 2021.
Frequency: occasional
Nominations: public (no deadline)
Prize money: none (honorary).
The inaugural composition of the Committee is as follows (see next page for details):
Robert Fulghum
Janika Spannagel
Eleanor Davies
Adama Dieng
Hans Thoolen