Philippe Sands receives an important prize. He gets the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The prize is worth 25.000 Euro. Philippe Sands is a lawyer and a writer. He comes from France and Great Britain. He works as a lawyer for human rights. He works at the International Court of Justice in Den Haag.
Sands gets the prize for his work. He defends the Völker-Recht. He writes about justice and peace. His own family survived the Holocaust. In his books he explains important terms. For example the terms Genozid and crimes against humanity. He connects his life story with the law.
The prize is given on October 11. This happens at the end of the Frankfurter Buch-Messe. The ceremony is in the Pauls-Kirche. The prize exists since 1950. Earlier winners were Astrid Lindgren or Albert Schweitzer. Sands also helps the environment. He helped to create the term Ökozid. That means destruction of the environment.
