Call for entries: French Republic Human Rights Prize [fr]
The prize, created in 1988, is intended to reward and support individual or collective actions in the field, in France or abroad, regardless of nationality or borders, to promote or protect human rights.
The theme: Protecting the human rights of civilians in situations of armed conflict
The year 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions adopted in 1949. One of these is specifically aimed at protecting civilians in situations of armed conflict. The massive and/or serious violations of the rights of civilians in situations of armed conflict, which are multiplying on a global scale, strike at human conscience.
Yet international humanitarian law is neither a promise nor a piece of charity, but a body of law which commits all parties to a conflict to respect it, and all the world’s states to ensure that it is respected. Moreover, international human rights law remains applicable even in situations of armed conflict.
In such situations, civilian populations may be exposed to physical violence, murder, rape and sexual violence used as weapons of war, famine, obstruction of the delivery of humanitarian aid, forced displacement, enforced disappearance, health risks, massive destruction of their property and public goods, destruction of cultural heritage, disinformation, environmental damage, etc....
For more information, visit the CNCDH website: https://www.cncdh.fr/edition-2024-du-prix-des-droits-de-lhomme
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