The Ambassador of Conscience Award, now in its fifth year, recognises exceptional individual leadership and witness in the fight to protect and promote human rights.

Nelson Mandela
Johannesburg, 2006

U2 & Paul McGuinness

Santiago, 2005

Hilda Morales Trujillo &
Mary Robinson

Madrid, 2004

Václav Havel

Dublin, 2003

...
‘Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity,’
Václav Havel,
Ambassador of Conscience
recipient 2003


 
 

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