Deadline: 1 September 2010
The French Republic’s Human Rights Prize, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” for 2010, presented by the Prime Minister of the French government, is now open to applications. This prize is awarded for individual or collective action on the ground, irrespective of nationality or borders, undertaken in France or abroad, with respect to one of two themes.
Theme 1: Poverty, impoverishment and human rights in a financial and economic crisis
Projects to combat poverty which aim to ensure the effective enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights can submit applications. Winning projects may deal with concrete and innovative actions to bring sustainable solutions to the issues of the exclusion of poor people in a crisis situation in their country and through ownership and effective exercise of their rights, and to encourage communities to offer a long-term solution to their economic and social problems.
Theme 2: New information and communication technologies (NICT) and human rights
Accessing information, contributing to its development and circulation, as well as benefiting from the development capacities offered by NICT are some of the issues which the theme of the French Republic’s Human Rights Prize would like to raise this year. The censorship imposed on certain sites by governments, the criminal convictions against bloggers and human rights defenders exercising their right to free speech, are in all our thoughts. To these serious issues, we must add support for projects which promote equality as regards access to these technologies, computers, the Internet, etc., equality in how they are used and equality in the use of information stemming from these tools, with the goal of achieving full human rights for all.
Application procedures
Non-governmental organizations, irrespective of nationality or borders, should present a field mission or project undertaken in France or abroad in 2010 concerning one of two themes. The application form must include:
a) An application letter presented and signed by the president or legal representative of the operating NGO;
b) An application stating in detail the aim and description of the work undertaken or project submitted. It must include a precise budget (with an equivalent sum shown preferably in euros);
c) A presentation of the operating NGO (status, work conducted, etc.);
d) Address and bank details of the NGO
Applicants must submit their completed applications to charlotte.dementhon@diplomatie.gouv.fr and claire.ichou@diplomatie.gouv.fr
