The Sutton Viewpoint Center and its Founder, President & CEO, Phil Sutton, DBA, have won a rare International Award in Human Rights.

The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is an Honorary Award given to individuals and organizations in recognition of outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the Human Rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Statutes of Rome, Responsibility to Protect Principles and in other instruments of the United Nations relating to Human Rights and International Law.

The Prize was established by the General Assembly in 1966 (A/RES/21/2217) and was awarded for the first time on 10 December 1968, on the occasion of the Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Prize has since been awarded in 1973, 1978, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013 and now 2022.

The Prize is an opportunity not only to give Public Recognition to the Achievements of the Recipients themselves, but also to send a clear message to Human Rights Defenders  all over the World that the International Community is grateful for, and supports, their tireless efforts to promote Human Rights for all!!!!!!!

Previous winners have included Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Denis Mukwege, Malala Yusafzai, Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

An important feature of the Prize is how Winners are selected. Nominations can be received from a broad variety of sources: "Member States, specialized Agencies and non-Governmental Organizations in consultative status and from other appropriate sources."

The Winners were chosen by a Special Committee comprising of the President of the General Assembly, the President of the Economic and Social Council, the President of the Human Rights Council, the Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women and the Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, as mandated by the UN General Assembly. OHCHR provided support to the Special Committee.

This makes SVC President Phil Sutton a Nobel Prize Contender!