Reebok Human Rights Award

American award by Reebok

Reebok Human Rights Award

Awarded for	Given to activists under the age of thirty who fight for human rights through non-violent means
Sponsored by	Reebok
Country	United States
Presented by	Reebok Foundation
First awarded	1988
Last awarded	2007; 17 years ago (2007)

The Reebok Human Rights Award honoured activists 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 Foundation.

Roots can be traced to 1988 when Amnesty International invited Reebok to sponsor Human Rights Now!, a series of worldwide music concerts.^[1] Youth from close to 40 countries received the award since it was established in 1988. No new awards have been given out since 2007.

Laureates

2007

Laura McCargar, United States
Anderson Sa, Brazil
Iryna Toustsik, Belarus
Ou Virak, Cambodia

2006

Li Dan, China
Rachel Lloyd, United States
Khurram Parvez, India
Otto Saki, Zimbabwe

2005

Zarema Mukusheva, Chechnya/Russia
Carlos Rojas, Mexico
Aloysius Toe, Liberia
Charm Tong, Burma/Thailand

2004

Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, Nigeria^[2]
Vanita Gupta, United States^[2]
Joênia Batista de Carvalho, Brazil^[2]
Ahmad Nader Nadery, Afghanistan^[2]

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

Juliana Dogbadzi, Ghana^[3]
Tanya Greene, United States
Suba Meshack, Kenya
Ka Hsaw Wa, Burma

1998

Abraham Grebreyesus, Eritrea
Rana Husseini, Jordan
Van Jones, United States
Dydier Kamundu, Democratic Republic of Congo

1996

Innocent Chukwuma, Nigeria
Jesús Tecú Osorio, Guatemala
Julie Su, United States
Ma Thida, Burma
Craig Kielburger, Canada

1995

Angela Elizabeth Brown, United States
Miguel Angel de los Santos Cruz, Mexico
Richard Nsanzabaganwa, Rwanda
Ven. Phuntsog Nyidron, Tibet
Broad Meadows Middle School, United States

1994

Adauto Alves, Brazil
Rose-Anne Auguste, Haiti
Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary (Backward Society Education), Nepal
Iqbal Masih, Pakistan
Samuel Kofi Woods, Liberia

1993

Marie-France Botte, Belgium
Sia Runikui Kashinawa, Brazil
Hisham Mubarak, Egypt
Reverend Carl Washington, United States

1992

Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Zaire
Fernando de Araujo, East Timor
Stacy Kabat, United States
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
Shawan Jabarin, West Bank^[4]^[5]
Tracye Matthews, United States
Akram Mayi, Iraq
David Moya, Cuba

1989

Louise Benally-Crittenden, United States
Michael Brown and Alan Khazei, United States
Li Lu, Wang Dan, Chai Ling and Wu'erkaixi, China
Mercedes Doretti and Luis Fondebrider, Argentina
Dawat Lupung, Malaysia
Bryan Stevenson, United States

1988

David Bruce, South Africa
Joaquin Antonio Caceres, El Salvador
Janet Cherry, South Africa
Arn Chorn-Pond, United States
Tanya Coke, United States
Lobsang Jinpa, Tibet
Salim Abdool Karim, South Africa
Winona LaDuke, United States
Juan Pablo Letelier, Chile
Maria Paz Rodriguez, United States
Dalee Sambo, United States

References

^ Our history on RHR website (archive, 13 Feb 2007)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Staff, W. W. D. (7 May 2004). "Reebok's Human Rights Stars". WWD. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
^ "'Wife of the Gods' Stirs Up Ghana". Los Angeles Times. 24 June 1999. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
^ "Honors for the Unsung Heroes of Human Rights". Los Angeles Times. 21 December 1990. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
^ "The Interview - Israeli and Palestinian NGOs receive controversial human rights award". France 24. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-03.