The Jewish Museum of Belgium has been awarded the 2020 Prize for Democracy and Human Rights by the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s regional parliaments.
The regional parliament chose to recognise the Museum’s “work in favour of remembrance and for promoting values of openness for a peaceful and constructive interfaith dialogue”.
The Jewish Museum of Belgium, located in Brussels, was the target of a terrorist attack, which took the lives of four people.
The annual Democracy and Human Rights Prize has been awarded since 2015. Endowed with 10,000 euros, it aims to highlight a specific achievement within the framework of the World Organisation of the Francophonie and the values it defends: peace, democracy and human rights.
