[1] The prize is an initiative of Marc Dullaert, founder of the KidsRights Foundation, an international children's aid and advocacy organisation based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

[citation needed] Mikhail Gorbachev presented the 2005 prize, which was posthumously awarded to Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy who brought international attention to children with HIV/AIDS and founded the Nkosi's Haven home for HIV-positive mothers and children.

[citation needed] The 2006 award was handed out by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk in a ceremony at the Binnenhof, the seat of the Dutch parliament in The Hague.

The 2007 was presented at the Binnenhof by Bob Geldof and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams.

[3] In 2018 a finalist was Leilua Lino, a human rights activist from Samoa.