ALBA and Puffin Foundation Poised to Announce 2025 Human Rights Award
Emilio Silva receiving the ALBA/Puffin Award, 2015. Photo Len Tsou
As this issue is going to print, ALBA’s Human Rights Committee is hard at work to finalize the process of selecting this year’s winner of the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism. Keep an eye on your email and social media for an announcement.
One of the largest monetary awards for human rights in the world, the ALBA/Puffin Award is a $100,000 cash prize granted annually by ALBA and The Puffin Foundation to sustain the legacy of the experiences, aspirations, and idealism of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. It supports contemporary international activists and human rights causes. A philanthropist and visionary, the late Perry Rosenstein of The Puffin Foundation created and established an endowed fund for this award in 2010. Since then, the annual award has been granted fourteen times. (See below for an overview of award winners.)
The award ceremony will be held in New York City in early May. Those interested in attending may contact the ALBA office at info@alba-valb.org.
2011 Baltasar Garzón
2012 Kate Doyle and Fredy Peccerelli
2013 United We Dream
2014 Bryan Stevenson
2015 La Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica
2016 Lydia Cacho and Jeremy Scahilll
2017 Proactiva Open Arms
2018 The Coalition of Immokalee Workers
2019 The Immigration Justice Campaign
2020 No More Deaths
2021 My Brother’s Keeper
2022 Life After Hate
2023 Indigenous Women Rising
2024 18By Vote
