Nansen refugee award
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The Nansen Refugee Prize was created in 1954 to honor individuals or organizations who have done a lot to help the refugees .
The award bears the name of the Norwegian polar explorer and first High Commissioner for Refugees, Fridtjof Nansen, and has been endowed with US $ 100,000 since 1979 for a refugee project that the awardee can freely choose. The award is presented by the Nansen Refugee Award Committee , which is chaired by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
This Nansen Medal should not be confused with the Fridtjof Nansen Medal of the European Geosciences Union .
Award winners
- 1954: Eleanor Roosevelt (USA)
- 1955: Juliana , Queen of the Netherlands
- 1956: Dorothy D. Houghton (USA) and Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart
- 1957: League of Red Cross Societies
- 1958: David Hoggett (Great Britain) and Pierre Jacobsen (posthumous) (France)
- 1959: Oskar Helmer (Austria)
- 1960: Christopher Chataway , Colin Jones , Trevor Philpott and Timothy Raison (all UK)
- 1961: Olav V , King of Norway
- 1962: Tasman Heyes , CBE (Australia)
- 1963: International Council of Volunteer Associations (ICVA)
- 1964: May Curwen , DBE, François Preziosi (posthumous) (Italy) and Jean Plicque (posthumous) (France)
- 1965: Lucie Chevalley (France), Ana Rosa Schliepper de Martinez Guerrero (posthumous) (Argentina) and Jorgen Norredam (posthumous) (Denmark)
- 1967: Bernhard , Prince of the Netherlands
- 1968: Bernard Arcens (Senegal) and Charles H. Jordan (posthumous) (USA)
- 1969: Shap , Princess of Nepal
- 1972: Svana Fridriksdottir (Iceland)
- 1974: Bishop Helmut Frenz (Chile)
- 1975: James J. Norris (USA)
- 1976: Olav Hodne (Norway) and Marie-Louise Bertschinger ( posthumous ) (Switzerland)
- 1977: Malaysian Red Crescent
- 1978: Seretse Khama , KBE, (Botswana)
- 1979: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , President of France
- 1980: Maryluz Schloeter Paredes (Venezuela)
- 1981: Paul A. Cullen (Australia)
- 1982: Sonja , Crown Princess of Norway
- 1983: Julius Nyerere , President of the United Republic of Tanzania
- 1984: Lewis M. Hiller , Jeff Kass and Gregg Turay (all USA)
- 1985: Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of São Paulo (Brazil)
- 1986: The Canadian people
- 1987: Juan Carlos I , King of Spain
- 1988: Syed Munir Husain (Pakistan)
- 1991: Paul Weis (posthumously) (Austria) and Libertina Amathila (Namibia)
- 1992: Richard von Weizsäcker , President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1993: Doctors Without Borders
- 1995: Graça Machel (Mozambique)
- 1996: Handicap International
- 1997: Joannes Klas (USA)
- 1998: Mustafa Abdülcemil Kirimoglu (Ukraine)
- 2000: Jelena Silajdzic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Abune Paulos (Ethiopia), Lao Mong Hay (Cambodia), Miguel Ángel Estrella (Argentina) and the United Nations volunteers
- 2001: Luciano Pavarotti (Italy)
- 2002: Arne Rinnan , captain of the Tampa , together with crew and shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen (Norway)
- 2003: Annalena Tonelli (Italy)
- 2004: Memorial Human Rights Center (Russia)
- 2005: Marguerite Barankitse (Burundi)
- 2006: Akio Kanaï (Japan)
- 2007: Katrine Camilleri (Malta)
- 2008: Christopher Clark and the UN Mine Action Coordination Center South Lebanon
- 2009: Edward Kennedy (posthumous) (USA)
- 2010: Alixandra Fazzina (Great Britain)
- 2011: Society for Humanitarian Solidarity ( Yemen )
- 2012: Hawa Aden Mohamed (Somalia)
- 2013: Angélique Namaika (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- 2014: Butterflies with New Wings Building a Future (Colombia)
- 2015: Aqeela Asifi (Pakistan)
- 2016: Elliniki Omada Diasosis (Greece) and Efi Latsoudi (Greece)
- 2017: Zannah Mustapha (Nigeria)
- 2018: Evan Atar Adaha , South Sudanese doctor
Web links
- The Nansen Refugee Award (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/fridtjof-nansen/
- ^ WOZ: Humanitarian Aid in Yemen , October 13, 2011
- ↑ Nansen Refugee Award 2018: Dr. Evan Atar Adaha . Retrieved October 8, 2018.