The Malala Prize is the Prize awarding the defense of Human Rights and Freedom of Speech.
Every years, the European Student Council awards a personnality to give a tribute to his / her committment in the defense of Human Rights.
In this page you will be able to propose a candidate. The other students, if they are interested in your proposition, can join you in a small international team and work with you by building a complete file about your candidate.
Attention: there are some criterias before choosing a candidate, which are:
- The candidate shouldn't have been awarded by an international Prize (Sakharov Prize, Nobel Prize, etc.) or, of course the Malala Prize during the previous years.
- The candidate can be whoever an association or a real person.
- The canditate can't be one of the representative of the ESC.
Candidates propositions:
Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, the national Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders.
She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels on a wide range of issues impacting indigenous peoples.
She spent six months on the frontlines in North Dakota fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is heavily engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline.
She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a non-profit committed to educating the public about the harms of stereotyping and promoting positive representation of Native Americans in the public sphere.
Leon Dănăilă (Romania) is a romanian neurosurgeon and author. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 2004 and at the 2016 parliamentary election he won a seat in the Romanian Senate. He was able to perform the most complex neurosurgicak operations and he succeeded in reducing operation mortality to percentages comparable with those reported by the world's most reputable neurosurgical clinics.
Anna Dymna, a Polish actress, has been involved in charity for many years. In 1999 she started co-operation with the St. Brother Albert Foundation which organizes charity performances with therapistsh and their disabled charges. Two years later she originated the "Albertiana" National Festival of Theatre and Musical Works of Disabled Persons.
Finally, in the year 2003 Dymna established her own charity foundation, called Mimo Wszystko ("Against the Odds") which aims at improvement in the living conditions of the poor and disabled people. This aim is to be achieved by gradual diminishment of mental barriers that exist between the disabled and the healthy citizens of society, as well as by equalising opportunities for them.
Anna Dymna is also the co-author of a TV program Spotkajmy się ("Let's meet"), in which she talks with her ill and disabled guests about "love, acceptance, loneliness, happiness, faith and hope". The program is produced in an intimate and peaceful atmosphere.
She also supported actions focused on help for the refugees from Kosovo.
Pietro Bartolo, is an Italian doctor from Sicily who has fought to give Lampedusa permanent air medical services. Since 1993 he has personally taken care of thousands of migrants and he continues to do so. He is often the last person to take care of the bodies of the drowned.
He was also in the frontline during the tragedy happened on the 3 October 2013, when at 5 am a fire blazed on a ship near the coast of Lampedusa with more than 500 migrants on board. There were at least 350 victims, but 155 people were saved. Among this people, the doctor remembers in particular one of them: a woman named Kebrat. In fact, the doctor said: ”In the meantime firemen were busy putting the victims into bags; but before they closed them up, I decided to do a final check. There was a girl suffering from hypothermia, I thought I felt a pulse, but I could’ve been wrong. After that I felt another weaker pulse. She was resuscitated in the first-aid unit then hospitalized for more than a month in Palermo.”
In our nation, Pietro Bartolo is a very esteemed man. In fact he was named Cavaliere dell’Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana on 2 June 2014, and on the 10 October 2016 he achieved the title of Commendatore dell’Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana.
Eleni Karagianni (Greece)
She studied painting, mixed techniques, engraving, art history and pedagogy. She teaches as a Visual Education instructor in primary and secondary Education. In her pedagogical program she seeks an experiential approach to Art and freedom of expression for students, inspired by the pedagogical model of the art schools of Reggio Emilia. She believes that school is a living organization that directly promotes culture and democracy.
She is a founding member and Chairman of the nonprofit organization: Network of Art and Action (People with Balloons), an organization that promotes the empowerment of vulnerable groups through Art (refugees, seropositive people etc.) and supports the link between the educational community and modern social needs.
The NAA organizes visual events aimed at the dissemination of human rights through the visual language.In the school environment, members of the association organize actions aimed at activating the educational community in human values and in the idea of an active citizen.
Within this framework, they coordinate the Children's Anti- Racist Street Festival of Art and Adoption and the Animal-friendly Program for Schools: Student Action Group on Animal Protection.
Kostas Giannopoulos (“The smile of the Child”) (Greece)
The smile of the child is an internationally recognized, nonprofit organization that operates in Greece. It was established in 1995 by Kostas Giannopoulos, who wanted to fulfill his son’s wish, who died from cancer that same year.
The purpose of the organization is to defend childrens’ rights, contribute to solving their everyday life’s problems, as well as protecting children in danger. Up to this day, it has supported 1.2 million kids and their families. It continuously organizes effective actions all over Greece with the main aim of preventing and coping with phenomena that threaten children. The organization also helps kids struggling with health issues, victims of violence of every kind, children that are threatened by or are already facing poverty.
The organization consists of specialized stuff with the support of volunteers. Its main keystone is the help of citizens and companies that support the organization’s work with donations and sponsorships.
Its action includes, among other things, hosting children at risk, their telephone support, counseling and social integration programs, supporting families struggling with poverty and information campaigns or cultural and sport events.
Jerome Jarre (France)
Jerome Jarre is a french entrepreneur, as well as a youtuber, humanist, and philanthropist.
He’s born in 1990, and he started making videos on Vine in 2013.
To this day, he’s led a lot of humanitarian projects, like calls for donations, the « LoveArmy », or many other projects :
-Building refugee camps in Birmania, in order for the rohingyas to live in fair conditions,
-Gathering 3 million euros to help Somalians suffering from starvation,
-creating inventive « light bottles » to help people from Phillipines have light.
Isidoro Macías Martín (Spain)
This old clergyman, is known as "Padre Pateras" due to his humanitarian work in Algeciras in favor of sub-Saharans immgrants which cross the Strait of Gibraltar.
He was born in 1945, and since he was a child he had to help his family economically. This will make him feel, that there could be others who also need help.
He became a clergymen, and strated to travel to other countries, luike Venezuela and Ivory Coastwhere he helped many other needed people
Since 1982, he had lived in Algeciras, where he runs a house called "Virgen de la palma" where he hosts elderly homeless people and African immigrants which spend the night in the port. He also hosts unemployed people, and mostly pregnant sub-Saharan women without economic resources.