The Reebok Human Rights Award honoured
activists
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...
under the age of thirty who fought for human rights through non-violent means. Each year, the award was given to four or five individuals. Each received a grant of US $50,000 that was to be used to support their human rights work. The awards were underwritten by the
Reebok
Reebok International Limited () is an American fitness footwear and clothing manufacturer that is a part of Authentic Brands Group. It was established in England in 1958 as a companion company to J.W. Foster and Sons, a sporting goods company ...
Foundation.
Roots can be traced to 1988 when
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...
invited Reebok to sponsor
Human Rights Now!
Human Rights Now! was a worldwide tour of twenty benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place over six weeks in 1988. Held not to raise funds but to increase awareness of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on it ...
, a series of worldwide music concerts.
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Vanita Gupta
Vanita Gupta (born November 15, 1974) is an American attorney who has served as United States Associate Attorney General since April 22, 2021. From 2014 to 2017, Gupta served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under P ...
, United States
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Joênia Batista de Carvalho, Brazil
* Ahmad Nader Nadery, Afghanistan
2003
* Pedro Anaya, United States
* Anusuya (Oona) Chatterjee, United States
* Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah, Sierra Leone
* Ernest Guevara, Philippines
* Christian Mukosa, Democratic Republic of Congo
2002
* Kavwumbu Hakachima, Zambia
* Maili Lama, Nepal
* Malika Asha Sanders, United States
2001
* Ndungi Githuku, Kenya
* Heather Barr, United States
* Kodjo Djissenou, Togo
* Will Coley, United States
1999
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Juliana Dogbadzi, Ghana
* Tanya Greene, United States
* Suba Meshack, Kenya
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Ka Hsaw Wa, Burma
1998
* Abraham Grebreyesus, Eritrea
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Rana Husseini, Jordan
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Van Jones
Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American news and political commentator, author, and lawyer. He is the co-founder of several non-profit organizations, a three-time ''New York Times'' bestselling author, a CNN host and c ...
, United States
* Dydier Kamundu, Democratic Republic of Congo
1996
* Innocent Chukwuma, Nigeria
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Jesús Tecú Osorio
Jesús Tecú Osorio (born 1971 in Río Negro, Baja Verapaz) is a Guatemalan social activist, worker for human rights, and advocate for the Achi Maya.
In 1982, much of the population of Río Negro was murdered; Tecú survived, but witnessed the ...
, Guatemala
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Julie Su
Julie A. Su (born February 19, 1969) is an American attorney who has served as United States deputy secretary of labor since 2021. Before assuming that post, she was the California Labor Secretary, serving under Governor Gavin Newsom, and headed ...
, United States
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Ma Thida, Burma
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Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger (born December 17, 1982) is a Canadian human rights activist and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, with his brother Marc Kielburger, of the WE Charity, as well as We Day and the independent, social enterprise Me ...
, Canada
1995
* Angela Elizabeth Brown, United States
* Miguel Angel de los Santos Cruz, Mexico
* Richard Nsanzabaganwa, Rwanda
* Ven.
Phuntsog Nyidron
Phuntsog Nyidron (born 1969) is a Tibetan Buddhist nun and a former high-profile prisoner in Tibet. In 1989, she and eight other nuns traveled from her hometown to the provincial capital of Lhasa when it was convulsed by Tibetan independence prot ...
, Tibet
* Broad Meadows Middle School, United States
1994
* Adauto Alves, Brazil
* Rose-Anne Auguste, Haiti
* Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary (
Backward Society Education
Backward Society Education (BASE) is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works with Tharu in Western Nepal to fight illiteracy, bonded labor from the Kamaiya system, and a number of other issues in the region. The group received the ...
), Nepal
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Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih ( pa, اقبال مسیح; 1983 – 16 April 1995) was a Pakistani Christian child labourer and activist who campaigned against abusive child labour in Pakistan.
He was assassinated on 16 April 1995. On 23 March 2022, he was p ...
, Pakistan
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Samuel Kofi Woods
Samuel Kofi Woods (born May 1,1964) is a Liberian human rights activist, journalist, politician and academic. In 1994, he founded the Forefront Organization, which documented human rights abuses during the Second Liberian Civil War.
Biography
W ...
, Liberia
1993
* Marie-France Botte, Belgium
* Sia Runikui Kashinawa, Brazil
* Hisham Mubarak, Egypt
* Reverend Carl Washington, United States
1992
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Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Zaire
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Fernando de Araujo, East Timor
* Stacy Kabat, United States
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Martin O'Brien, Northern Ireland
1991
* Mirtala Lopez, El Salvador
* Sauveur Pierre, United States
* Abubacar Sultan, Mozambique
* Carlos Toledo, Guatemala
* Ashley Black, United States
1990
* Jeffrey Bradley and Martin Dunn, United States
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Shawan Jabarin
Shawan Rateb Abdallah Jabarin (born 1960 in Sa'ir, West Bank) is the general director of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization in the West Bank. From 2005 to 2009, Jabarin was a member of the Board of Directors of Defense for Children In ...
, West Bank
* Tracye Matthews, United States
* Akram Mayi, Iraq
* David Moya, Cuba
1989
* Louise Benally-Crittenden, United States
* Michael Brown and
Alan Khazei
Alan Khazei (; born May 28, 1961) is an American social entrepreneur. He served as chief executive officer of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program he co-founded with Michael Brown, his friend and roommate at Harvard College and Har ...
, United States
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Li Lu
Li Lu (born April 6, 1966)
is a Chinese-born American value investor, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital Management. Prior to emigrating to America, he was one of the student leaders of the 198 ...
,
Wang Dan,
Chai Ling
Chai Ling (; born April 15, 1966) is a Chinese psychologist who was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. She is the founder of All Girls Allowed, an organization dedicated to ending China's one-child policy, and t ...
and
Wu'erkaixi
Örkesh Dölet ( ug, ئۆركەش دۆلەت, zh, 吾尔开希·多莱特; commonly known by his pinyin name Wu'erkaixi) is a political commentator known for his leading role during the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
Of Uyghur heritage, he was bo ...
, China
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Mercedes Doretti and Luis Fondebrider, Argentina
* Dawat Lupung, Malaysia
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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, h ...
, United States
1988
* David Bruce, South Africa
* Joaquin Antonio Caceres, El Salvador
* Janet Cherry, South Africa
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Arn Chorn-Pond, United States
* Tanya Coke, United States
* Lobsang Jinpa, Tibet
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Salim Abdool Karim
Salim S. Abdool Karim, MBChB, MMed, MS(Epi), FFPHM, FFPath (Virol), DipData, PhD, DSc(hc) is a South African public health physician, epidemiologist and virologist who has played a leading role in the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemic. His scientific ...
, South Africa
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Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke (born August 18, 1959) is an American economist, environmentalist, writer and industrial hemp grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.
In 1996 and 2000, she ran for Vice ...
, United States
* Juan Pablo Letelier, Chile
* Maria Paz Rodriguez, United States
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Dalee Sambo, United States
References
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