Prize For Freedom

For the annual award delivered by the Flemish thinktank Nova Civitas, see Prize of Liberty.

The Prize For Freedom is an annual prize presented by the Liberal International since 1985. With the prize the organization honors an individual which has made an outstanding contribution to human rights and political freedoms. The Prize is one of the highest awards focused on the people who would persevere and promote world liberality.

Awards

Year	Awardee	Country
1984	Raúl Alfonsín	Argentina
1985	Sheena Duncan	South Africa
1986	Corazon Aquino	Philippines
1987	Hans-Dietrich Genscher	West Germany
1988	Benazir Bhutto	Pakistan
1989	Václav Havel	Czechoslovakia
1990	Gitobu Imanyara	Kenya
1991	Domingo Laino	Paraguay
1992	María Elena Cruz Varela	Cuba
1993	Mary Robinson	Ireland
1994	Sadako Ogata	Japan
1995	Aung San Suu Kyi	Myanmar
1996	Martin Lee	Hong Kong
1997	Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria
1998	Khalida Messaoudi	Algeria
1999	Lennart Meri	Estonia
2000	Asma Jahangir	Pakistan
2001	Chen Shuibian	Taiwan
2002	Helen Suzman	South Africa
2003	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal
2004	Grigory Yavlinsky	Russia
2005	Antonino Zichichi	Italy
2006	Sam Rainsy	Cambodia
2007	Alaksandar Milinkievič	Belarus
2008	Padraig O'Malley	United States
2009	Eric Lubbock	United Kingdom
2010	Shirin Ebadi	Iran
2011	Chee Soon Juan	Singapore
2012	Colin Eglin	South Africa
2013	Dick Marty	Switzerland
2014	Waris Dirie	Somalia
2015	John Alderdice	United Kingdom
2016	Raif Badawi	Saudi Arabia
2017	Ilham Tohti	China
2018	Leila de Lima	Philippines
2019	María Corina Machado	Venezuela
2020	Zeid bin Ra'ad	Jordan
2021	Sima Samar	Afghanistan
2022	Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Ukraine
2023	Vladimir Kara-Murza	Russia

See also

• Oxford Manifesto

Sources

• Prize for Freedom
• Aliaksandr Milinkevich