Democracy Awards

The following are recipients of the Democracy Award, which was awarded for the first time at the 1982 IAPC Berlin Conference:  
1982  Lech Walesa, Polish Solidarity leader
1983  Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
1984  Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina
1985  Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany
1986  Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
1987  Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain
1988  No Medal awarded
1989  Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR
1990  Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia
1991  Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Republic
1992  Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 18 years Foreign Minister
1993  F. W. de Klerk, State President, Republic of South Africa And Nelson Mandela, President, African National Congress
1994  Jimmy Carter, Former President of the U.S.
1995  Aung San Suu Kyi, National Leauge for Democracy in Mayarmar
1996  Yitzhak Rabin (posthumous), Prime Minister of Israel
1997  International Foundation for Election Systems
1998  Martin Lee, Chairman, Hong Kong Democratic Party
1999  Milo Djukanovic, President of the Republic of Montenegro
2000  George Mitchell, Former US Senator
2001  Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia
2002  Morgan Tsvangirai, Chairman, Movement of Democratic Change, Zimbabwe
2003  Joe Napolitan & Michel Bongrand, Founding members of the IAPC
2004  Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Founder National Association in Support of Children’s Rights, Iran
2005  Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
2006  Evelyn Dubrow, Director Emeritus IAPC
2007  The People of Indonesia
2008  Datuk Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
2009  Dr. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian Prime Minister

About the Democracy Award

Each year at its annual conference, the International Association of Political Consultants awards its Democracy Medal to an individual or organization who, in the judgment of its membership, has worked courageously to foster, promote and sustain the democratic process anywhere in the world.

A burnished rendering of the Acropolis is etched in relief on the face of the large bronze medal. The back side contains the engraved name of the recipient and the year it was given. Appropriately, the certificate which accompanies the Medal includes this universally recognized definition of democracy.