Igor Blaževič (born 1963 in Trebinje, Herzegovina region of SFR Yugoslavia) is a European human rights campaigner of Bosnian origin living in the Czech Republic as the founder and longtime director of One World,[1] the Europe's biggest[2] human rights documentary International Film Festival and the director of the People in Need foundation.
[4] Among other activities he is the director of the Educational Initiatives, training program for the Burma activists based in Thailand.
He participated in many humanitarian missions such as Sarajevo, Chechnya, Cambodia or Burma and East Timor.
He also took part in filming a wide range of documentaries, such as Issues from Asia (1998),[6] City of Shadows (1999), The Refugees of Twenty Years War (2000[7]), Small Dreams of the Street,[8] Only 500 Deaths (2002, from East Timor),[9] Burmese Prisoners (2002)[10] (translated names).
For his activities in favour of human rights he received the Alice Garrigue Masaryk Award,[11] František Kriegel Price[12] and Prix Irene.