International Human Rights Award 

Every year, UNA-Boulder recognizes a Boulder County resident for outstanding service in promoting, advancing or educating the public about the international protection of human rights. Inspired by the creation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the award was first conferred in 1996.  

Recipients speak at a reception in their honor, usually in the winter. If you would like to attend, watch for the date on the calendar or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The 2008 winner has already been chosen.

Here are the award winners and brief accounts of their works:

1996 Ellen Moore                                                         
Co-Director, Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network.

1997 Bruce Montgomery                           
Norlin Library Archivist -- amassed the largest academic repository of international human rights abuse materials in the country.

1998 Bill Cohen                          
Led an effort to get hundreds of Russians, many of them Jews, out of the Soviet Union and resettled in the Boulder-Denver area.

1999 Roy Young                          
Created and funded three foundations to help third-world countries protect environmental rights.

2000 Inge Sargent                      
President of Burma Lifeline, a charity devoted to helping Burmese refugees survive in countries bordering Burma.

2001 Richard Kraft                      
Led a campaign to help fund orphanages in some of Africa’s poorest countries.

2002 Le Roy Moore                      
Helped train Russians for environmental and human rights protection work, during the last years of the Soviet Union and the first years of the new Russia.

2003 Jean Gore                          
Past national president and long-time leader, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

2004 Julia Shaw                          
Creator and Executive Director, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights.

2005 Dr. Richard Cross                     
Since 1995, leads eye health teams to Jamaica. Treated more than 200 cases of severe eye disease in first ten years.

2006 Eric Glustrom                      
In 2002, at age 17, created Educate!, a foundation that raises money to keep refugees and other poor students in school in Uganda.

2007 Carl Tinstman                      
Helped direct a joint UNICEF and WHO program of polio eradication that has nearly wiped out the disease world wide.