Giuseppe Motta Medal is presented annually since 2004 by the Geneva Institute for Democracy and Development to the people from any country or region of the world for exceptional achievement in the promotion of peace and democracy, human rights and sustainable development. The prize commemorates Giuseppe Motta (1871–1940), a Swiss politician, five-time President of the Swiss Confederation, President of the League of Nations Assembly and member of the Swiss Federal Council.Giuseppe Motta Medal - Official Website
Three medals are awarded annually according to nominations: Support for peace and democracy Protection of human rights Work to achieve sustainable developmentGiuseppe Motta Medal - Winners
Medal winners
Year Support for peace and democracy Protection of human rights Work to achieve sustainable development 2004 Arthur Simon Elena Bonner Geoffrey Ballard 2005 Violeta Chamorro Jonathon Porritt 2006 Nelson Mandela Alirio Uribe Muñoz Joan Bavaria 2007 Vicente Fox Quesada Desmond Tutu James Harris Simons 2008 Václav Havel Solange Pierre 2009 Martin C.M. Lee Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Al Gore 2010 Richard von Weizsäcker Liu Xiaobo Charles G. Koch 2011 José Maria Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado Nasrin Sotoudeh Ernesto Bertarelli 2012 Soon Ok Lee Abel Barrera Hernández Richard Branson 2013 Aung San Suu Kyi Guillermo Fariñas Alessandro Carlucci 2014 Angela Merkel Denis Mukwege Naomi Klein 2015 Tawakkol Karman Michel Forst Jeremy Leggett 2016 Giorgi Margvelashvili Amina Mohammed Joan Carling 2017 Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Bianca Jagger Vandana Shiva 2018 David McAllister Nadia Murad Christiana Figueres 2019 Zuzana Čaputová Bryan Stevenson Greta Thunberg 2020 Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Ai Weiwei Johan Rockström 2021 Maria Ressa Marielle Franco Sandra Steingraber 2022 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ales Bialiatski Kate Raworth 2023 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Denis Mukwege Melinda Gates 2024 María Corina Machado Volker Türk Vanessa Nakate
References
External links Official Website The Geneva Institute for Democracy and Development