22/04/2019 | Prizes
The deadline for submission of nominations for the 2019 Václav Havel Prize is 30 April. The Prize aims to reward "outstanding civil society action in defending human rights in Europe and beyond".
14/01/2019 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Vaclav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has today issued a call for nominations for the 2019 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.
08/10/2018 | Prizes
The sixth Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to the head of the Grozny office of the Memorial Human Rights Center in Chechyna, Oyub Titiev.
26/09/2018 | Prizes
The 2018 Europe Prize will be awarded to the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk at a ceremony in the town on 28 September. Jaak Madison, member of the Social Affairs Committee will present the Prize to the city Mayor.
28/08/2018 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize, comprising independent figures from the world of human rights and chaired by the PACE President, has drawn up the shortlist for the Prize in Prague today.
20/08/2018 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the PACE Václav Havel Human Rights Prize will meet on Tuesday 28 August in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received.
15/01/2018 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in partnership with the Vaclav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has today issued a call for nominations for the 2018 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize.
05/12/2017 | Prizes
The 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The museum was selected by the PACE Culture Committee at a meeting in Budapest today.
09/10/2017 | Prizes
The fifth Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding civil society action in defence of human rights – has been awarded to Turkish supporter of the independence of the judiciary Murat Arslan.
22/09/2017 | Prizes
Serhii Kiral and Andrzej Wojtyła, members of the Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize of the Parliamentary Assembly will present the Prize to Krzysztof Żuk, Mayor of Lublin (Poland).
29/08/2017 | Prizes
The selection panel of the Václav Havel Prize 2017 today drew up the shortlist of candidatures in Prague. The shortlisted nominees are Murat Arslan (Turkey), the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Father Georg Sporschill (Austria).
24/08/2017 | Prizes
The Selection Panel of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize will meet on 29 August in Prague to determine a shortlist of three nominees from among the candidatures received. The 2017 prizewinner will be announced on 9 October in Strasbourg.