APA Human Rights Award Recipients
2009- Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) and Robert Okin, MD with emphasis on Dr. Okin’s work with MDRI
2008-Alfred Freedman, MD
2007-Steven Sharfstein, MD
2006-President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (joint-individual) and The Carter Center (organizational)
2005-Dr. David Lozovsky (posthumously) and Drs. Leon and Carola Eisenberg (joint-individual award)
2004-Walter Reich, MD
2003- Senator Paul Wellstone (posthumously) and Senator Pete Domenici
2002—Individual: Dr. Gro Bruntland; Institutional: National Association for Multicultural Mental
2001 – Dr. Semyon Gluzman
2000 – Abraham Halpern, MD
2000 – Prof. Lars Jacobsson
1999 – Eugene Brody, MD
1998 – Jack Weinberg, MD (Posthumously)
1997 – Justice Richard Goldstone
1996 – Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, Copenhagen, Denmark, with special mention of Inge Kemp Genefke, MD and Lawrence Hartmann, MD particularly for his human rights work in the APA
1995 – Physicians for Human Rights
1994 – Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry
1993 – Richard Mollica, MD
1992 – American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee and Staff on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility