Prizewinners - Human Rights Office of the City of Nuremberg

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Rodrigo Mundaca / Modatima (Chile) for his remarkable courage fight for the fundamental right to water

Group "Caesar" for its courage in bringing the systematic torture and mass murders in Syria to the attention of the world public

Amirul Haque Amin (Bangladesh) for his fight for workers' rights in the textile and garment industry

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (Uganda) for her courageous fight against homophobia and for sexual self-determination in Uganda

Hollman Morris (Colombia) for his commitment to respect for human rights in Colombia.

Abdolfattah Soltani (Iran) for his struggle for human rights in his home country.

Eugénie Musayidire (Rwanda) for her reconciliation work between the two enemy tribes, the Hutu and the Tutsi, in Rwanda.

Tamara Chikunova (Uzbekistan) for her engagement against death penalty and torture.

Ibn Abdur Rehman (Pakistan) and Teesta Setalvad (India) for their committed fight against prejudice, hatred and violence.

Bischop Samuel Ruíz García (Mexico) for his struggle for the rights of indigenous peoples.

Fatimata M'Baye (Mauritania) for her fight against discrimination of black African ethnic groups.

Abe J. Nathan (Israel) and Khémaïs Chammari (Tunesia) for their peace activities in the Middle East.

Sergej Kovalev (Russia) for his committed fight against the war in Chechnya.