Jaime Prieto Mendez
Jaime Prieto Mendez | |
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Born | 1 January 1954 |
Nationality | Colombian |
Organization | Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners |
Known for | human rights activism |
Awards | Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award |
Jaime Prieto Mendez (born 1 January 1954[1]) is a Colombian human rights activist. The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights describes him as "internationally regarded as a founder of the modern Colombian human rights movement",[2] and in 1998 awarded him its Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award along with fellow Colombian activists Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez, and Mario Calixto.[3]
Prieto began his career as a teacher in a poor area of Bogotá. Feeling that lack of "human rights literacy" increased the abuses against the poor, he began a human rights education program for which authorities later imprisoned him. In 1976, he joined the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, and in 1990 he became its executive director, a position he held until 1998. He then took a teaching position at a university in Bogotá.[2]
References
- ^ "Four Activists Deplore Tide of Violence". The Miami Herald. 10 November 1998. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Colombia: Jaime Prieto Mendez". Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human rights. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ "1998: Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez, Jaime Prieto & Mario Calixto, Colombia". Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
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- CoMadres (1984)
- Allan Boesak, Beyers Naudé, Winnie Mandela (1985)
- Zbigniew Bujak, Adam Michnik (1986)
- Kim Geun-tae, In Jae-keun (1987)
- Gibson Kamau Kuria (1988)
- Fang Lizhi (1989)
- Amílcar Méndez Urízar (1990)
- Avigdor Feldman, Raji Sourani (1991)
- Chakufwa Chihana (1992)
- Bambang Widjojanto (1993)
- Wei Jingsheng, Ren Wanding (1994)
- Kailash Satyarthi, Đoàn Viết Hoạt, Nguyễn Đan Quế (1995)
- Sezgin Tanrıkulu, Şenal Sarıhan (1997)
- Berenice Celeita, Gloria Florez, Jaime Prieto Mendez, Mario Calixto (1998)
- Michael Kpakala Francis (1999)
- Martin Macwan (2000)
- Darci Frigo (2001)
- Loune Viaud (2002)
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers (2003)
- Delphine Djiraibe (2004)
- Stephen Bradberry (2005)
- Solange Pierre (2006)
- Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah (2007)
- Aminatou Haidar (2008)
- WOZA (2009)
- Abel Barrera Hernández (2010)
- Frank Mugisha (2011)
- Librada Paz (2012)
- Ragia Omran (2013)
- Adilur Rahman Khan (2014)
- Natalia Taubina (2015)
- Andrea C. James, Glenn E. Martin (2016)
- Alfredo Romero (2017)
- United We Dream, March for Our Lives, International Indigenous Youth Council, Color of Change (2018)
- Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, Angry Tias & Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley, La Unión del Pueblo Entero (2019)
- Alessandra Korap (2020)
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