Human Rights Award

Criteria for the award:

• Activities
• Altruistic - no personal gain
• Personal risk
• Significant contribution in the field of human rights and ethnic relations
• Not necessarily recognized by other organizations

Recipients:
1982 Justice Thomas Berger
1983 Charan Gill
1984 Jill Weiss
1985 Dr. Joseph Katz
1986 Bishop Remi DeRoo
1987 Sheila Shannon
1988 Renate Shearer
1989 Japanese Canadian Re-Dress Committee
1990 Mildred Fahrni and Marta Torres
1991 Headlines Theatre Company
1992 Valmond Romilly
1993 VAST (Vancouver Association for the Survivors of Torture)
1994 Nora Patrich
1995 India Mahila Association
1996 Jean Swanson - End Legislated Poverty
1997 Trinity United Church
1998 Rosemary Brown
1999 Alan Dutton
2000 Linda Morgan
2001 Harriet Nahanee
2002 Ken Lyotier
2003 MCC Refugee and Newcomers Assistance Program
2004 Vancouver Cooperative Radio and Refugee Lawyers Committee
2005 Catalina Hernandez
2006 Dr. Lloyd Axworthy
2007 Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
2008 Shelley Rivkin
2009 Shashi Assanand
2010 Adrienne Montani
2011 Norma-Jean McLaren