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Mario Joseph
Mario Joseph, who has been referred to as “Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer”, has led the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti since 1996.
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Joint Mobile Group
The Joint Mobile Group seeks accountability for human rights abuses in Chechnya, notably enforced disappearances, torture in custody, and extra-judicial executions.
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Mona Seif
Mona was raised in a family of human rights defenders. Her father Ahmed Seif El Islam is a respected Human Rights Lawyer who spent five years in prison under the Mubarak regime.
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Portrait films of the Martin Ennals Award Laureates

2011
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera - UGANDA
2010

 Muhannad Al-Hassani - SYRIA
2009

Emad Baghi - IRAN
2008

Mutabar Tadjibaeva - UZBEKISTAN
2007

Pierre Claver Mbonimpa - BURUNDI
2007

Rajan Hoole & Kopalasingham Sritharan
SRI LANKA
2006

Arnold Tsonga - ZIMBABWE
2006

Akbar Ganja - IRAN
2005

Aktham Naisse - SYRIA
2004

Lidia Yusupova - RUSSIA
2003

Alirio Uribe Munoz - COLUMBIA
2002

Jacqueline Moudeina - CHAD
2001 

Peace Brigades International
2000

Immaculée Birhaheka - CONGO
1999

Natasha Kandic - SERBIA
1998

Dr. Eyad El Sarraj - PALESTINE
1997

Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia - MEXICO
1996

Clement Nwankwo - NIGERIA
1995

Asma Jahangir - PAKISTAN
1994

Harry Wu - CHINA

In collaboration with
The City of Geneva

The Jury consists of 10
leading Human Rights NGO’s



The Panel of Regional NGOs support
the Jury with their in depth
Regional knowledge