Free Your Mind (MTV award)


Free Your Mind is an award granted by MTV during its shows in order to award actions or promotion towards social ethics such as human right protection, political and civil law enforcement or environmental protection. The awards are given to non-governmental organizations as well as individuals. The granted award is also provided financial assistance and campaign promotion on MTV's channels.

MTV Europe Music Awards

YearRecipientNotes
1994Amnesty InternationalFor preventing and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.
1995GreenpeaceFor their campaign against underground nuclear testing.
1996The Buddies and Carers of EuropeFor support their HIV-positive friends.
1997Landmine Survivors NetworkFor helping survivors to recover from war, rebuild their communities, and break cycles of violence.
1998B92For the journalism and fighting for human rights.
1999BonoFor his world peace work.
2000Otpor!For their role in the successful overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000.
2001Treatment Action CampaignFor doing extraordinary work around HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
2002FAREFor counter racism and xenophobia in European football.
2003Aung San Suu KyiFor leading the Burmese democracy movement.
2004La StradaFor the organization's dedication to the fight against the trafficking of women and girls in Europe.
2005Bob GeldofFor his charity work organizing the Live 8 concerts.
2007Anton AbeleFor his work against street violence following Riccardo Campogiani's death.
2009Mikhail GorbachevFor his involvement in the fall of the Berlin Wall.
2010ShakiraFor her continuing dedication to improve access to education for all children around the world.

MTV Australia Awards

YearRecipientNotes
2005AusAIDFor the efforts of over 400 AusAID funded Australian aid workers to tsunami-affected countries.
2006Peter Garrett-

MTV Russia Music Awards

YearRecipient
2004Vladimir Posner
2005Valery Gazzaev
2006Crew of the sailfish "Kruzenshtern"

MTV Romania Music Awards

YearRecipientNotes
2003Matei-Agathon DanFor the Romanian seaside in 2002.
2004McCann EricksonFor change the situation of Roma communities in Romania through an information and awareness campaign.
2006United NationsFor the work of the UNDP project "Support to Training of Public Managers through Romanian Government Special Scholarships”.