HRAD Archive

The 2008 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to Barbara A. Frey, co-founder of The Advocates for Human Rights and its first executive director, and to Samuel D. Heins, co-founder of The Advocates for Human Rights and its first chairperson.

The 2007 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to Priscilla Hayner, co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice, where she serves as Director of the Peace and Justice Program, and to Sofia Macher, the first female head of the Peruvian branch of Amnesty International and a Commissioner for Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The 2006 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to Kao Ly Ilean Her, Esq., executive director of the Minnesota State Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans; to Lupe R. Serrano, director of Casa de Esperanza; and to Hauwa Ibrahim, for defending women's rights in Nigeria through his successful challenge of Islamic Sharia law in several cases in Nigerian court.

The 2005 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to The American Refugee Committee for delivering life-saving medical supplies to victims of the tsunami in Southern Thailand, and to The Center for Victims of Torture for helping torture survivors from more than 60 countries heal and rebuild their lives.

The 2004 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award was presented to the Honorable Walter F. Mondale for his decades of service and leadership on human rights issues.

The 2003 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to Professor David Weissbrodt, director of the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Center; to Paul and Sheila Wellstone, in memoriam, for their tireless promotion of human rights and their leadership in the United States Senate on human rights issues; and to the Honorable Mary Robinson, past president of Ireland and past United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The 2002 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to William F. Schultz, executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A., and to Susanna Vardanyan, executive director of the Women's Rights Center in Yerevan, Armenia.

The 2001 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Awards were presented to Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, past president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and to John Anthony Kaiser, MHM (1932-2000) for his human rights activism in Kenya.