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.Our history on RHR website (archive, 13 Feb 2007) Youth from close to 40 countries received the award since it was established in 1988. No 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 Vanita Gupta, United States Joenia 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 Juliana Dogbadzi, Ghana 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 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
External links (archived, 17 Feb 2007)