Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights

Recipients of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights

• Robert L. Bernstein, founder of Human Rights Watch and retired chairman of Random House
• Representative John Lewis, lifelong civil rights leader
• Bette Bao Lord, human rights activist, China scholar and novelist.
• Dorothy Q. Thomas, women's rights activist responsible for groundbreaking research and advocacy on human rights violations against women around the world.
• Dolores Huerta, co-founder and leader of the United Farm Workers of America and lifelong labor activist.

• Charlotte Bunch, an international women's rights activist, instrumental in securing the inclusion of gender and sexual orientation on the global human rights agenda.
• Burke Marshall, for his lifelong commitment to civil rights, including his service as Assistant Attorney General in the Kennedy Administration.
• Sister Jean Marshall, a Dominican nun who founded in the Bronx, in service to victimized immigrants.
• Rev. Leon Sullivan, anti-apartheid activist and author of the Global Sullivan Principles promoting corporate social responsibility worldwide, that he unveiled at the United Nations that year together with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

• Tillie Black Bear, a strong voice for Native American and women's rights and a leading advocate for victims of domestic violence.
• Frederick Charles Cuny, a lifetime of service to the civilian victims of conflict and disaster.
• Norman Dorsen, former President of the American Civil Liberties Union and Chairman of the Board of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
• Elaine R. Jones, promoted groundbreaking civil rights legislation and widened the circle of opportunity for all Americans.
• Most Reverend Theodore Edgar McCarrick, lifelong human rights advocate.

• Congressman Frank Wolf, worked tirelessly for the passage of landmark human rights legislation, including the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and legislation on trafficking in persons.
• John Kamm, for working to engage the Chinese Government in a results-oriented dialogue on human rights
• Barbara Elliott, for starting a private initiative to provide people with basic needs and help them through the transition following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• Professor Louis Henkin worked for over half a century developing human rights legal studies and is an important figure in the field, effecting generations of bureaucrats lawyers, activists and legal scholars.
• Alice Hartman Henkin
• Wade Henderson
• Sarah Cleto Rial