Franz Werfel Human Rights Award [SEP] named after
Franz Werfel Human Rights Award
The Franz Werfel Human Rights Award () is a human rights award of the German Federation of Expellees' Centre Against Expulsions project. It is awarded to individuals or groups in Europe who, through political, artistic, philosophical or practical work, have opposed breaches of human rights by genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the deliberate destruction of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups.
The prize.
The foundations of the prize are considered to be the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the International Agreement on Civilian and Political Rights of 1966, the resolution of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of 1998 as well as the consequences of the meeting of the European Council of the Heads of State and Governments in Copenhagen of 1993 and other statements issued by the European Union. 
The award is named after the famous Austrian author Franz Werfel (1890–1945), whose novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" famously portrayed the displacement of the Armenians from Turkey and the