1986 | 4th award
January 2nd 1986
Dr. Karl Renner Institute
Award Winners
- Ambassador Dr. Herbert Amry, Austria
- COMADRES – Committee of the Mothers and Families of Political Prisoners, and Missing and Murdered Persons in El Salvador, ElSalvador
- International Conference of Historians of the Workers Movement (ITH), Austria
- Jewish-Arabic House in Beth Berl, Israel
- Menschenrechtskommission von Guatemala / Human Rights Commission of Guatemala - CDHG, Guatemala
- ÖSFK / Austrian Institute for Peace Research and Peace Education / Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Solution, Austria
- Österreichisches Kuratorium für Flüchtlingshilfe / Austrian Curatorship for Refugee Aid, Austria
- Stiftung Dr. Bruno Kreisky Archiv / Dr. Bruno Kreisky Foundation Archives, Austria
- Erich Weisbier, Spain
- VIDC – Viennese Institute for Questions of Development / Viennese Institute for International Dialogue and Collaboration, Austria
The fourth award ceremony on 22nd January 1986, Bruno Kreisky's 75th birthday, held in the Karl Renner Institute in Vienna, was characterised by an emphasis on Austria. Among the prize winners were the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation, the Austrian Institute for Peace Research and Education, the Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation, Erich Weisbier, the International Conference of Historians of the Labour Movement, and, posthumously, ambassador Herbert Amry.
The prize to the Austrian Kuratorium for Refugee Aid was a first sign of awareness of the growing human rights problems of migrants in Austria and Europe. Among those afflicted by civil war in Central America, awards went to the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission and the Committee of Mothers and Kindred of Political Prisoners, the „Disappeared“ and Murdered in El Salvador. An award to the Jewish-Arab House in Beth Berl again honoured the Israeli Trade Union Federation Histadrut, which aimed to further understanding between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel.