Olof Palme Prize
The Olof Palme Prize has been awarded by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security in Stockholm since 1987 to honor the memory of the Swedish politician Olof Palme . The prize was donated by the Olof Palmes family and the board of the Social Democratic Party . The purpose of the fund is to promote young people's opportunities for international exchange and for studies of peace and disarmament through scholarships and grants, to support work against racism and xenophobia , and to work in other ways for international understanding and common security. The Olof Palme Prize is awarded annually by the Board of Directors of the Memorial Fund for “particularly outstanding achievement” and is endowed with 100,000 US dollars (as of 2019).
Award winners
- 2019 John le Carré , writer
- 2018 Daniel Ellsberg , whistleblower
- 2017 Hédi Fried and Emerich Roth , Holocaust survivors
- 2016 Spyridon Galinos , Mayor of Lesbos and Giusi Nicolini , Mayor of Lampedusa and Linosa
- 2015 Gideon Levy , Israeli journalist, and Mitri Raheb , Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem
- 2014 Xu Youyu , philosophy professor for his commitment to democracy and free speech in China.
- 2013 Rosa Taikon , silversmith and spokesperson for Sinti and Roma rights in Sweden.
- 2012 Radhia Nasraoui
- 2011 Lydia Cacho , Roberto Saviano
- 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj
- 2009 Carsten Jensen
- 2008 Denis Mukwege
- 2007 Parvin Ardalan
- 2006 Kofi Annan and Mossaad Mohamed Ali
- 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi
- 2004 Lyudmila Aleksejewa , Sergei Kowaljow and Anna Politkowskaja
- 2003 Hans Blix
- 2002 Hanan Ashrawi
- 2001 Fazle Hasan Abed
- 2000 Bryan Stevenson
- 1999 Kurdo Baksi , Björn Fries and Föräldragruppen i Klippan
- 1998 The independent media in the former Yugoslavia - represented by Veran Matić , Senad Pecanin and Victor Ivancic
- 1997 Salima Ghezali
- 1996 Casa Alianza under the direction of Bruce Harris
- 1995 Fatah Youth Organization, Labor Young Leadership and Shalom Achshaw
- 1994 Wei Jingsheng
- 1993 Students for Sarajevo
- 1992 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour
- 1991 Amnesty International
- 1990 Harlem Désir and SOS Racisme
- 1989 Václav Havel
- 1988 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1987 Cyril Ramaphosa
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John le Carré receives Olof Palme Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 10, 2020
- ↑ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2108&artikel=6047268
- ↑ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2108&artikel=5749557
- ↑ Radhia Nassraoui reçoit le Prix Olof Palme pour les droits de l'Homme de 2012 . Retrieved January 27, 2013
- ↑ Palme Prize to authors Saviano and Cacho . Salzburger Nachrichten on January 23, 2012. Accessed on January 27, 2013