In 2001 he established a series of projects and books about international human rights issues, published and distributed free of charge and made available online. He has received many awards for his work, including Le Prix Dialogue de l'Humanite, Rencontres d'Arles (2003), the Henri Cartier-Bresson International Grand Prize (2005), and the Lucie Humanitarian Award (2009). In 2005 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.