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Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Martin Ennals (1927 - October 5, 1991) was a British human rights activist. Ennals served as the Secretary-General of Amnesty International, between 1968 and 1980. He went on to help found the British human rights organisation ARTICLE 19, followed by International Alert in 1985. The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, created in 1993, is granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous means and is in need of protection. The Martin Ennals Award gives international "protective publicity" to human rights defenders around the world, mainly in their country of origin (a unique characteristic of this award, and very important from a protection point of view), through mass media (television, radio and internet). The winner is selected in Geneva, the world center for human rights, by a jury made up of 10 leading international human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Frontline, International Commission of Jurists, etc...(ww.martinennalsaward.org). The Martin Ennals Award is considered THE award of the whole human rights movement.