Biographies

• Adi Roche
• 2007-05-24
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Adi Roche has spent the majority of her life campaigning for peace, humanitarian aid, and education. As the Founder of Chernobyl Children?s Project International, Adi has worked for the past 15 years to provide humanitarian aid to the children of Belarus, Western Russia and the Ukraine.

• Marla Ruzicka
• 2006-05-27
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Marla Ruzicka was a passionate young relief worker and the founder of CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) she was, in the words of one obituary, "an extraordinary, one-person American aid agency, who worked tirelessly to get compensation for victims of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Though only 28 when she died, killed by a car bomb in Baghdad in April 2005 - she had spent much of her life helping ordinary people whose lives had been shattered by conflict.

• Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulowavo
• 2005-05-01
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulowayo has been a shining light in the fight for human rights ? demanding that his government address the mounting food and economic crises and put an end to torture and rape.

• Clive Stafford Smith
• 2004-05-01
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Clive Stafford Smith, a British lawyer who practises in the areas of civil rights and the death penalty in the United States of America, has spent 25 years working on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the USA.

• Yitzhak Frankenthal
• 2003-05-01
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Yitzhak Frankenthal founded the Bereaved Families Forum, an organization of bereaved Israeli parents, Palestinian and Jews, who lost their children during army service or in an act of terrorism.

• John Sulston
• 2002-05-01
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Sir John Sulston has devoted his scientific life to biological research and played a central role in the human genome sequencing project. In 2002 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .