Human rights activist Andrey Yurov gets international award in The Hague

The prize was awarded for the organization of human rights violations monitoring and training of activists and human rights defenders.

As the International Human Rights Movement website reports, November 19, the Helsinki public prize awarding ceremony, established by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee in 2015, was held in The Hague (Netherlands)

Its first winner was Azerbaijani human rights defender and peace movement activist Arzu Abdullayeva, who received the main, money prize. Andrey Yurov, Voronezh human rights activist, the member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for civil society development and human rights, the founder of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, received a symbolic prize.

He was awarded for “the longstanding efforts to organize solidarity actions and monitoring of human rights violations within the OSCE territory” and for his contribution to the theoretical concept of human rights and training of activists and human rights defenders.

Earlier, Yurov became the first winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize in the nomination “For the development of human rights protection traditions among youth.”

A physicist by training, a graduate of the Voronezh State University, Andrey Yurov has been actively engaged in human rights protection at the local community level, the national level as well as abroad since 1988.