2026 GPA Privacy and Human Rights Award Nomination Form

About the Award

The Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) is launching its second edition of the Privacy and Human Rights Award. This is an international award, in collaboration with Access Now, the global human rights organization, to celebrate exemplary work to protect and promote privacy and other fundamental rights. The Privacy and Human Rights Award, developed by the GPA’s Data Protection and Other Rights and Freedoms Working Group, will recognize organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership or initiative at the international, state, or regional level in the fields of privacy or data protection as well as human rights.

To submit an entry for the Privacy and Human Rights Award, please complete and submit this form no later than 11:59 pm EDT, December 10, 2025. Nomination forms must be submitted in English. Please note that if you are unable to submit the nomination form in English, please send an email to the GPA Secretariat at secretariat@globalprivacyassembly.com.

If you have any questions, please email secretariat@globalprivacyassembly.com

Section 1 - Nominator's Contact Information

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* 1. Nominator's Full Name.

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* 2. Nominator's Job Title.

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* 3. Nominator's Company or Organization.

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* 4. Nominator's Email Address.

Section 2 - Nominee's Contact Information

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* 5. Name of the organization being nominated (the nominee) (note: the nominee must be at the organization level, and not at the individual level. Organizations consisting of only one individuals, however, are eligible for the award).

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* 6. Full name of the contact person of the organization being nominated.

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* 7. Job title of the contact person of the organization being nominated.

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* 8. Email of the contact person of the organization being nominated.

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* 9. Country of region the organization being nominated works in (note: this relates to the country or region where the work being nominated for is taking place and not the headquarters of the organization that may be located in a different location).

Section 3 - About the nominee

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* 10. LEADERSHIP. Please provide a description of the nominee's demonstrated leadership in the field of privacy or data protection and human rights at a state, national or international level. Please include examples of significant contributions to the field, and how the nominee works and fosters collaboration with others in privacy, data protection, human rights and related fields (Please do no exceed 300 words).

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* 11. CONTRIBUTIONS. Please describe how the nominee's solutions, contributions and outputs had a positive impact on a community and how these efforts in the privacy or data protection field work in tandem with other human rights.

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* 12. EXPERIENCE. Please describe the time frame during which the nominee has been contributing to advance privacy or data protection and other human rights (Please to not exceed 100 words).

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* 13. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. Please explain why you think the nominee deserves to be recognized by this Award. Please explain if this work relates to a novel issue and include details on unique factors regarding those impacted (often overlooked group, need of immediate improvement, etc.) (Please do not exceed 300 words).

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* 14. CONTRIBUTIONS. Please provide (when applicable) descriptions of the nominee’s type of work in the following areas (Please do not exceed 300 words):
- research and reporting that focuses upon the intersection of privacy, data protection, and other human rights;
- new tools or resources developed which assisted communities with understanding privacy and data protection in relation to other rights, and;
- advocacy work at the state, regional or international level to highlight privacy and data protection issues as relate to the expression of other human rights.