Previous Recipients of PGA's Defender of Democracy Awards
Mr. Kailash Satyarthi
India, Founder/Chair of the Global March Against Child Labor (2009)
Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan
Barrister-at-Law, Senior Advocate Supreme Court (2009)
H.E. Mr. Leonel Antonio Fernandez Reyna
President of the Dominican Republic (2008)
Rt. Hon. Don McKinnon
Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth (2008)
H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia) President of Liberia (2007) Senator Ken Nnamani (Nigeria) Former Senate President of Nigeria (2007) 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)
Read Press Release H.E. Mr. George Papandreou (Greece)
Foreign Minister (2003) Read Press Release
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) The Hon. Kristina Svensson,
Swedish Ambassador to Zambia/Malawi (1996)
The Hon. Leonce Ngendakumana,
President, National Assembly; MP (Burundi)(1996) |