Dr. Nafis Sadik (Pakistan)
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (2006)

Mrs. Yukika Sohma (Japan)
Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist (2006)

Mrs. Mary Robinson (Ireland)
President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (2005)
Former President of Ireland
Former United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights

Rt. Hon. Helen Clark (New Zealand)
Prime Minister (2004)

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H.E. Mr. George Papandreou (Greece)
Foreign Minister (2003)

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Dr. Chee Soon Juan (Singapore)
Secretary-General, Singapore Democratic Party (2003)

H.E. Mr. Philippe Kirsch (Canada)
Ambassador of Canda to the Kingdom of Sweden (2002)

Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan (2002)

Mr. Dipak Patel (Zambia)
MP, Former PGA member (2001)

H.E. Kim Dae-jung (Republic of Korea)
President (2001)

Sra. Estela Barnes de Carlotto, (Argentina)
On behalf of Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (2000)

H.E. Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, (Mexico)
President (2000)

Mr. John Hume, MEP
(Northern Ireland) (1999)

Dr. Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi,
Founder of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (1999)

Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni,
Director, International Criminal Justice & Weapons Control Center, DePaul University (1998)

Ms. Charity Kaluki Ngilu, MP (Kenya)
On behalf of the Multi-Party Group in Kenya (1998)

The Late Hon. Bella S. Abzug,*
Co-founder and President, Women's Environment and Development Organization (1998)
Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award

H.E. Arthur N.R. Robinson,
President, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (1997)

H.E. Jan P. Pronk,
Minister of Development Cooperation, (The Netherlands) (1997)