Forsidecollage engelsk
Norsk Forside
Main menu
Human Rights Schools
Youth in the West Balkan
HumanRightSchools.org
NHC congratulates:
Memorial receives Andrei Sakharov Price
16/12-2009
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
The NHC would like to congratulate the Human Rights Centre Memorial, which today received the European Parliament's 2009 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. In his speech to the laureates, the President of the European Parliament Mr Buzek said that: “By awarding this year's prize to Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva on behalf of Memorial and all other human rights defenders in Russia, we hope to contribute to ending the circle of fear and violence surrounding human rights defenders in the Russian Federation, and to advance our message that civil society activists everywhere must be free to exercise their most basic rights of freedom of thought and freedom of expression."
The Sakharov Prize has since 1988 honoured exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression. Like Andrei Sakharov himself, all the winners of the prize have shown how much courage it takes to defend human rights and freedom of expression.
Read more
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
The Sakharov Prize has since 1988 honoured exceptional individuals who combat intolerance, fanaticism and oppression. Like Andrei Sakharov himself, all the winners of the prize have shown how much courage it takes to defend human rights and freedom of expression.
Read more
Print
DnH i mediene
See Photos
Aktuelt seminar
Kasakhstans vei - hva med demokrati og menneskerettigheter?
Hvor: Litteraturhuset Når: 10 september kl 10.00-12.00Les program
Central Asia