On 15 May 2025, the President of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR), Professor Linos-Alexandros Sicilianos, presented the winner of the International Paul Guggenheim Prize at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The recipient of the award, Dr Ginevra Le Moli, was distinguished for authoring the first monograph dedicated to the pivotal issue of human dignity in international law (G. Le Moli, Human Dignity in International law, CUP 2021). Dr Ginevra Le Moli is a part time Professor of International Law at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence School of Regulation, and a Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).

As Professor Sicilianos emphasized, the concept of human dignity constitutes the cornerstone of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law—inasmuch as the latter seeks to punish crimes that represent grave violations of human dignity. The awarded monograph, selected by the Prize Committee—of which Professor Sicilianos is a member—represents a significant contribution to the theory of human rights law and, more broadly, to international legal scholarship.

In conclusion, the MFHR underscores the imperative of upholding the fundamental values of the international community—among which, human dignity is a key—at a time when such values are increasingly under threat.