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Olof Palme Prize

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The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars.

The prize was established in February 1987 and is awarded by the "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 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour
  • 1993 Students for Sarajevo
  • 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), Senad Pećanin of Dani weekly (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Viktor Ivančić of Feral Tribune weekly (Croatia).
  • 1999 Swedish anti-racists: Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries 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 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
  • 2006 Kofi Annan, Mossaad Mohamed Ali
  • 2007 Parvin Ardalan
  • 2008 Denis Mukwege
  • 2009 Carsten Jensen
  • 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj
  • 2011 Lydia Cacho, Roberto Saviano
  • 2012 Radhia Nasraoui, Waleed Sami Abu AlKhair
  • 2013 Rosa Taikon
  • 2014 Xu Youyu
  • 2015 Gideon Levy, Mitri Raheb

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    Olof Palme Prize Wikipedia
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