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In 2024, the Ren\u00e9 Cassin Foundation – International Institute of Human Rights is organizing the first edition of the Jacques Ribs Prize for Human Rights.<\/p>\n

The aim of the award is to recognize an outstanding personal or collective initiative, action or work in the field of human rights and refugee law, in the spirit of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and the Geneva Convention of 1951.<\/p>\n

This prize is awarded in memory of Jacques Ribs, who devoted his life to the defense of human rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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JACQUES RIBS
1925-2022<\/h2><\/div>
“Jacques Ribs belongs by vocation and by path to the long line of great republican jurists who have served the cause of freedom in our country so well.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

In thewords of Robert Badinter<\/span>in an interview with Association Droit et D\u00e9mocratie in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

A doctor of law, Mr Ribs was a barrister at the Paris Court of Appeal and a member of the Conseil de l’Ordre, before being appointed Conseiller d’Etat and serving on a number of independent administrative authorities.
A tireless defender of human rights, he was an energetic, determined and courageous president of Droit et d\u00e9mocratie, a circle of jurists founded in 1966, and from 1999 of the association France Terre d’asile, which he represented on the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme. He was also a member of the honorary committee of the Ren\u00e9 Cassin Foundation.
His legacy is a testimony to the generosity of a man of conviction and a committed jurist. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Jury members<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Vincent BERGER<\/h3><\/div>

Former jurisconsult of the European Court of Human Rights<\/h4><\/div>

Vincent Berger has spent most of his career with the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, which he joined in 1978. He served as Section Registrar before becoming the Court’s Jurisconsult. Since 2013, he has been a barrister at the Paris Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Emmanuel DECAUX<\/h3><\/div>

Chairman of the Ren\u00e9 Cassin Foundation<\/h4><\/div>

Emmanuel Decaux is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Panth\u00e9on-Assas. He was a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights
, and Chairman of the Disappearances Committee
. He was also Vice-President of the CNCDH. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Jean-Marie DELARUE<\/h3><\/div>

Former Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty<\/h4><\/div>

Member of the Conseil d’Etat (hon). Jean-Marie Delarue was Director of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs at the French Ministry of the Interior, before chairing the Commission de suivi de la d\u00e9tention and becoming Contr\u00f4leur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des lieux de privation de libert\u00e9. He was also Chairman of the CNCDH.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Martine DENIS-LINTON<\/h3><\/div>

Former President of the French National Court of Asylum<\/h4><\/div>

Martine Denis-Linton is a member of the Conseil d’Etat (hon.), and was Chief of Staff to the Minister of Justice (1981-1985). She was appointed President of the Cour nationale du droit d’asile in 2009. Since 2015, she has been President of the Disciplinary Board of the French Pharmacists’ Association. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Nicole QUESTIAUX<\/h3><\/div>

Former Minister of National Solidarity<\/h4><\/div>

Nicole Questiaux is Honorary Section President of the Conseil d’\u00c9tat. She was a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights before becoming Minister of National Solidarity in 1981. She was President of the CNCDH and a member of the Comit\u00e9 national consultatif d’\u00e9thique. Nicole Questiaux was also a board member of France Terre d’asile. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Pinar SELEK<\/h3><\/div>

Lecturer and researcher<\/h4><\/div>

Sociologist, storyteller and activist Pinar Selek had to leave Turkey in 2011 to settle in France, where she has been granted academic asylum. She defended a doctoral thesis in political science on Turkish social movements. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Migration and Society research laboratory (URMIS) attached to the Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d’Azur.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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