Contains all information related to humanitarian awards such as the Oscar Romero Award and the Carter-Menil Human Rights prize. Includes candidate information and items relating to the award ceremony.

AWARD RECIPIENTS: The Rothko Chapel Awards for Commitment to Truth and Freedom

1981: Guiseppe Alberigo, Italy, Amadou Hampate Ba, Ivory Coast Balys Gajauskas, USSR Douglas and Joan Grant, USA Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, Argentina Ned IO'Gorman, USA Warren Robbins, USA Sakokwenonkwas (Chief Tom Porter), Mohawk Nation Zwelakhe Sisulu, South Africa Socorro Juridico, El Salvador Tatian Velikanova, USSR Jose Zalaquett, Chile

1986: Charter 77, Czechoslovakia Myles Horton, USA Helen Joseph and Alberina Sisulu, South Africa Anatoly Koryagin, USSR Jonathan Kuttab and Raja Shehadeh, Occupied West Bank Sanctuary, USA

1991: CONAVIGUA, Guatemala Ramon Custodio Lopez and CODEH, Honduras Ramiro de Leon Carpio, Cesar Alvarez Guadamuz and Sebastian Suy Perebal, Guatemala Juan Guillermo Cano Busquets and Ignacio Gomez Gomez, Colombia Maria Mirtala Lopez and CRIPDES, El Salvador

AWARD RECIPIENTS: The Rothko Chapel Award Oscar Romero Award

1986: Bishop Leonidas Proano Villalba, Ecuador 1988: Archbishop Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns, Brazil 1990: Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto and Maria Julia Hernandez, El Salvador 1991: Monsenor Rodolfo Quezada Turuno, Guatemala 1993: Oslobodjenje, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1997: Salima Ghezali and Abdennour Ali-Yahia, Algeria 2003: Ishai Menuchin, Yesh Gvul, Israel 2005: Sr. Dianna Ortiz, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International, USA 2007: Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss, No More Deaths, Arizona, USA 2009: Dr. Namegabe Murhabazi, Bureau pour le Volontariat au Service de l’Enfance et de la Sante, DRC 2011: Nassera Dutour, Collective for the Families of the Disappeared in Algeria and SOS Disparus, Algeria 2013: Blanca Velazquez, Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador, Mexico 2015: Berta Caceres, Consejo Civico de Organizaciones Populares e Indigenas de Honduras, Honduras; Miriam Miranda, Organizacion Fraternal Negra Hondurema, Honduras 2017: Kathryn Griffin-Grinan, Been There, Done That, Texas, USA; Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, Association pour la Protection des Droits Humains et des Personnes Detenues, Burundi 2020: Gérman Chirinos, Hondurasc, Founder of MASSVIDA (Southern Environmental Movement for Life/Movimiento Ambientalista del Sur por la Vida); Bernadette Demientieff, Alaska, USA, Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee; Jorge Díaz, Puerto Rico, USA, Co-Founder of AgitArte

AWARD RECIPIENTS: The Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize

1986: Yuri Orloz, Soviet Union 1986: Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), Guatemala 1987: La Vicaria de la Solidaridad, Chile 1988: The Sisulu Family, South Africa 1989: Al-Haq, West Bank 1989: B'Tselem/The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Israel 1990: The Consejo de Comunidades Etnicas Runujel Junam, Guatemala 1990: The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) of Sri Lanka 1991: Father Ignaco Ellacuria, Father Ignacio Martin Baro, Father Segundo Montes Mozo, Father Juan Ramon Moreno Pardo, Father Amando Lopez Quintana, Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez(posthumously awarded to these slain Jesuit priests), San Salvador 1992: Haitian Refugee Center (HRC), US 1992: Native American Rights Fund (NARF), US 1994: FAFO Institute for Applied Social Sciences: Terje Rod Larsen, Mona Juul, Jan Egeland,and Marianne Heiberg, Norway

OTHER AWARD RECIPIENTS

The Rothko Chapel Special Award, 1991, Nelson Mandela, South Africa