United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights
Subcategory of Awards International Awards
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Notes

  • 'The award is given to individuals and organizations in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.'

    Source: United Nations website,
    Sighted: 04/02/2010

    http://www.un.org/

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1995

winner (Non-Fiction) y separately published work icon Holding the Man Timothy Conigrave , Melbourne : McPhee Gribble , 1995 Z551412 1995 single work autobiography

'The mid-seventies - and satin baggies and chunky platforms reigned supreme. Jethro Tull did battle with glam-rock for the airwaves. At an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was to last for fifteen years, a love affair that weathered disapproval, separation and, ultimately, death. Holding the Man recreates that relationship. With honesty and insight it explore the highs and lows of any partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations. And the strength of heart both men had to find when they tested positive to HIV.' (Publisher's blurb)

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