The European lawyers members of the Jury of the "LUDOVIC-TRARIEUX INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE » meeting in Brussels Court’s House, on Friday 2 June 2006 awarded the eleventh « Ludovic-Trarieux » Prize, created in 1984 (first prize winner Nelson Mandela then in jail) and awarded every year to a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who, by his work, will have illustrated his activity or his suffering, the defence of human rights, of defence rights, the supremacy of law, the struggle against racism and intolerance in any form and given jointly by the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTES OF THE BAR Of BORDEAUX, BRUSSELS, PARIS and the EUROPEAN BAR HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE ( IDHAE), awarded the Prize 2006 to Parvez Imroz, a human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, who, since the end of the eighties, has initiated and led campaigns for human rights in a context of grave violations, including killings, tortures and rapes, or forced "disappearances" with impunity

Parvez Imroz is founder and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) that works to build local alliances between Kashmiri civil society groups.

The following was the list of the Jury for 2006 : : Bâtonnier Bertrand Favreau, Président, Bâtonnier John Bigwood (Bruxelles), Bâtonnier Henri Ader (Paris), President Woijciech Hermelinski ( National Polish Bar Council Warsaw), Bâtonnier Manuel Ducasse (Bordeaux), President Mario Lana (Roma), President Lucy Winskell (Law Society of England and Wales - London), Präsident Bernd Haüsler (Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin), Bâtonnier Robert De Baerdemaeker (Brussels), Bâtonnier Georges-Albert Dal (Brussels), Christophe. Pettiti IDHBP (Paris), Julia Bateman (London), Brigitte Azema Peyret, (Bordeaux), Hélêne Szuberla, (Bordeaux), Nicole Dehry, IDHBP (Paris), Isabelle Huet, IDHBP (Paris), Marie-France Guet, IDHBP (Paris), Reginald de Beco (Brussels), Raymond Blet, (Bordeaux), Philippe Froin, (Bordeaux), Frédéric Krenc (Brussels)

The Prize will be presented in October 2006 in France.

Parvez Imroz is a human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. He graduated in Science from Srinagar in the year 1972 and then got his LLB degree at the Law College Aligarh Muslim University in 1975. Imroz joined the J&K High Court as a lawyer in 1978. Since the end of the eighties, he has initiated and led campaigns for human rights in a context of grave violations, including killings, tortures and rapes, or forced "disappearances" with impunity. He is founder and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) that works to build local alliances between Kashmiri civil society groups.

In response to the large volume of parents at the Jammu and Kashmir High court who were filing or pursuing habeas corpus petitions, Imroz founded in 1994 the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), which brings together hundreds of Kashmiri families whose members have been the victims of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (EID). The APDP is a campaigning organization that seeks truth and justice on this human rights issue in Kashmir. The APDP is not a human rights group but an association of those suffering by the State’s tactics and they are campaigning for knowing the whereabouts of their missing relatives. Any person related to a victim of a disappearance could be a member of the association. The association has no political affiliations or political positions; it is an independent group seeking justice and information from the state.

Recently, in April 2003, Imroz organized a worldwide hunger strike, coordinated in different cities across the world, pressing for an end to disappearances, prosecution of perpetrators, and appointment of a commission to probe into all enforced disappearances. During the hunger strike, the APDP received the letters of solidarity from the civil society groups from India and abroad.