No fewer than 14 institutions and personalities were honoured at the third award ceremony on 23rd November 1984 in the
Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna. Numerous awards went to people and institutions from Latin and Central America.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the later president of Brazil, was honoured for his brave work under the Brazilian military dictatorship. Vicaría de la Solidaridad was well deserving for its work in support of political prisoners and their families in Chile. Legal advice and material support for the often destitute families was among the assistance offered by the group of Catholic priests and lay people. In the course of their work the members of the group were targeted for persecution by the dictatorship.

Johanna Dohnal and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the later President of Brazil, prize winners 1984.

Guatemalan human rights lawyer Yolanda Urízar Martínez de Aguilar had been kidnapped by the Guatemala
authorities in 1983, after her husband and seven year old son had been murdered in 1975, and her sixteen year old daughter imprisoned and tortured in 1979.

The Austrian aid committee for Nicaragua was honoured for its ambitious reconstruction work in Nicaragua. The Salvadorian human rights lawyer Marianella García Villas, who had been murdered in 1983, was posthumously honoured.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of Ronald Reagan's period in office in the USA and Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Cold War tensions escalated dangerously and led to a new arms race. In response, the Kreisky Foundation signalled its support for peaceful dialogue between East and West in bestowing an award on the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a group of leading international scientists who advocated a comprehensive ecological, social, common and peaceful security policy. The UCS received the award for their consistent demand for nuclear disarmament.

Eric van Loon receiving the prize in the name of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

On the same issue, the Catholic archbishop of Seattle, Raymond G. Hunthausen also received an award for his call for nuclear
disarmament.

Muzaffer Saraç, Turkish unionist and opposition politician, met with severe reprisals and persecution from the Turkish authorities in the 1970s and 1980s. The award from the Kreisky Foundation sought to support his work for human rights and democracy and protect Saraç from further reprisals.

The Austrian League for Human Rights was founded in 1926 as one of the 105 member organisations of the Fédération International des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) with headquarters in Paris. The League received the prize for its outstanding contribution to disseminating awareness of human rights in Austria.

Prelate Msgr. Leopold Ungar, long-serving head of Caritas Austria, was welldeserving not only for important humanitarian service in Austria and abroad, but also for his consistent engagement for the protection and development of human rights.

The Turkish Trade rade Union leader Muzaffer Saraç receiving the prize from Anton Benya.	l. to r.: Leopold Ungar, Sepp Wille, Leopold Gratz, Anton Benya	Shulamit Aloni giving her acceptance speech 1984.

Other honoured institutions and people in Austria were the Austrian aid committee for Nicaragua, the Society of Friends of Tel Aviv University in Austria, the Austrian Volkshilfe and Oswald Amstler. In Shulamit Aloni an activist for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue outside the mainstream, and later israel minister, was honoured.

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