Ambassador of Conscience Award
The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's most prestigious human rights award. It is given to individuals who show exceptional leadership in the fight to protect and promote human rights. The Award aims to promote the work of Amnesty International by association with the life, work and example of its ‘Ambassadors’.
Recipients
- 2015 - Joan Baez, American folk singer, songwriter and activist and Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist and activist
- 2013 - Malala Yousafzai, Pupil, blogger, activist and Harry Belafonte, American singer, human right and social justice activist
- 2009 - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
- 2008 - Peter Gabriel, musician and humanitarian activist
- 2006 - Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
- 2005 - Irish rock band U2 and their manager Paul McGuinness
- 2004 - Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Hilda Morales Trujillo, Guatemalan women's rights activist
- 2003 - Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic
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