page_title: Boris Dittrich
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Boris Dittrich / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Boris Dittrich, advocacy director for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, at the reception for the Jos Brink Award and Innovation Award in The Hague, The Netherlands, on May 17, 2013.
context_page_description: Boris Ottokar Dittrich is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party, jurist, author and human rights activist. He is a Member of the Senate since 11 June 2019.
  Dittrich's father came to the Netherlands as a political asylum seeker from Czechoslovakia in 1948, he became a professor in Eastern-European history at the University of Utrecht.
  Boris Dittrich grew up in Utrecht and went to law school at Leiden University. He worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam from 1981 till 1989 and later as a judge in the district court of Alkmaar from 1989 till 1994. Dittrich is married to the Dutch / Israeli sculptor Jehoshua Rozenman and is also an activist.
context_section_description: In 2006, then Queen Beatrix granted Dittrich Knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau for his political work.
  
  In 2012 he received the Bob Angelo Medal, an award from the Nederlandse Vereniging tot Integratie van Homoseksualiteit COC for defending the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people. 
  On the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) May 17, 2013 Dittrich received the national Jos Brink Award from the Dutch government for his activism on LGBT rights during three decades. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay attended the celebration in The Hague. In her speech she highlighted the worldwide UN led campaign against homophobia and transphobia called "Free and Equal".
  In 2013 Dittrich also received a golden pin (Gouden Wimpel) on behalf of the Dutch Postcode Lottery for his LGBT work for Human Rights Watch. The pin was given to him in Kenya, while on a field trip with Kenyan LGBT activists, by Winston Gerschtanowitz the ambassador of the Postcode Lottery.
  In 2019 Dittrich received the ‘Living Legend Award’ from the organization Workplace Pride in the Netherlands and the Jillis Bruggeman Penning from the city of Schiedam for his work promoting LGBT rights.
caption: Boris Dittrich, advocacy director for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, at the reception for the Jos Brink Award and Innovation Award in The Hague, The Netherlands, on May 17, 2013. Together with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay
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