Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights
{{Infobox award
| name = Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights
| image = Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights logo.jpg
| awarded_for = International personalities, bodies or organizations that have distinctively contributed to rendering an outstanding human service and has achieved great actions in defending Human rights, protecting the causes of freedom and supporting peace everywhere in the world.
| presenter = International People's Committee for Gaddafi's International Prize for Human Rights
| country = Libya
| year = 1989
| year2 = 2010
| website =
}}
The Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights was an annual human rights prize founded by the Libyan People's Congress in late 1988, in "indebtedness and gratitude for Muammar Gaddafi and in appreciation for his role in firmly establishing the principle of direct democracy, his persistent struggle, his distinctive inspiration and continuous instigation for the consolidation of human liberty and for issuing the Great Green Document in the era of the masses, for the purpose of bestowing tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans, nations, groups and individuals".[https://web.archive.org/web/20110220071542/http://www.gaddafiprize.org/WhoEn.htm About us] Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011.
Gaddafi made an initial grant of ten million US${{cite news|title=Prizes: And the Winner Is...|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957634,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022074618/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957634,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2010|publisher= Time|date=1989-05-08|accessdate=2012-10-24}} to the Swiss-based foundation North-South XXI which later administered the prize donation. The sum of the prize money was US $250,000 (in case of several recipients the prize money was shared). The prize was given by an international committee, chaired by former President of Algeria Ahmed Ben Bella.[http://www.tributes.com/obituary/photos/Ahmed-Ben-Bella-93621519 Chairman of the International Committee for the Gadhafi International Human Rights Prize 2004, former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella, left, shakes hands with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his awarding ceremony of the 'Gadhafi International Human Rights Prize 2004' in Tripoli, Libya.] Tributes.com Gaddafi himself had no say in choosing the recipient.
The prize was discontinued in 2011, after Gaddafi's overthrow and death during the Libyan Civil War.
Criticism of the organization includes Swiss TV's report claiming that "the Gaddafi prize for Human Rights is an instrument for propaganda for the dictator",{{cite web|title=UN rights official Jean Ziegler created "Qaddafi Prize", reports Swiss TV|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3LksIV0D0o&list=WL5ABC371F9A2AC9F7 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/N3LksIV0D0o |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=19 October 2013}}{{cbignore}} while other groups have said that it promoted "anti-American and anti-Western hatred".{{cite news|title=Rights Agency Gives Podium to "Gaddafi Prize" Front Group|work=Scoop|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1112/S00174/rights-agency-gives-podium-to-gaddafi-prize-front-group.htm|accessdate=19 October 2013|date=6 December 2011}}
List of recipients
Postage stamps issue
The Libyan state-owned General Posts and Telecommunications Company (GPTC) dedicated a postage stamps issue to Ghadafi Prize for Human Rights in 1994 (date of issue December 31). The issue consists of a minisheet with sixteen stamps.
Each horizontal strip of four stamps is dedicated to a particular subject:
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140309234644/http://www.algaddafi.org/al-gaddafiinternationalprizeforhumanrights/list-of-recipients-of-the-international-prize-for-human-rights List of recipients of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights] AlGaddafi.org
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Category:Awards established in 1988