Olof Palme Prize
The Olof Palme Prize is an annual Swedish prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 100,000 US dollars.
The prize was established in February 1987 and is awarded by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security (Swedish: Olof Palmes minnesfond för internationell förståelse och gemensam säkerhet), a fund that was established by Olof Palme's family and the Swedish Social Democratic Party in honor of Olof Palme's memory.
Recipients[]
- 1987 Cyril Ramaphosa
- 1988 UNs Peace Keeping Operation under the leadership of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1989 Václav Havel
- 1990 Harlem Désir and SOS Racisme
- 1991 Amnesty International
- 1992 and
- 1993
- 1994 Wei Jingsheng
- 1995 Fatah Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now
- 1996 Casa Alianza under the leadership of Bruce Harris
- 1997 Salima Ghezali
- 1998 Independent media in the former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matić of B92 radio (Serbia), of Dani weekly (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Viktor Ivančić of Feral Tribune weekly (Croatia).
- 1999 Swedish anti-racists: Kurdo Baksi, and the Parent Group in Klippan, representing the popular mobilization against growing racism and xenophobia in the country.
- 2000 Bryan Stevenson
- 2001 Fazle Hasan Abed and girls' education
- 2002 Hanan Ashrawi
- 2003 Hans Blix
- 2004 Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Sergey Kovalyov, Anna Politkovskaya
- 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi
- 2006 Kofi Annan,
- 2007 Parvin Ardalan
- 2008 Denis Mukwege
- 2009 Carsten Jensen
- 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj
- 2011 Lydia Cacho, Roberto Saviano[1]
- 2012 Radhia Nasraoui, Waleed Sami Abu AlKhair
- 2013 Rosa Taikon
- 2014 Xu Youyu
- 2015 Gideon Levy, Mitri Raheb[2]
- 2016 Spyridon Galinos, Giusi Nicolini
- 2017 Hédi Fried, Emerich Roth
- 2018 Daniel Ellsberg
- 2019 John le Carré[3][4]
- 2020 Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "2011 – Lydia Cacho och Roberto Saviano". Olof Palmes minnesfond. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ "2015 – Gideon Levy and Mitri Raheb". Olof Palmes minnesfond. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "John le Carré wins $100,000 prize for 'contribution to democracy'". The Guardian. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "John le Carré on Brexit: 'It's breaking my heart' – Olof Palme acceptance speech". The Guardian. 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize". BBC News. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
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Categories:
- Humanitarian and service awards
- Peace awards
- Olof Palme
- Olof Palme Prize laureates
- Human rights awards
- Awards established in 1987