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.
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician. A long-time protegé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 to his assassination, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet...
. The Prize consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars.
Receivers of the Olof Palme Prize
- 1987 Cyril RamaphosaCyril RamaphosaMatamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African lawyer, trade union leader, activist, politician and businessman. He was born in Soweto, Gauteng province...
- 1988 UNs Peace Keeping Operation under the leadership of Javier Pérez de CuéllarJavier Pérez de CuéllarJavier Pérez de Cuéllar y de la Guerra is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. He studied in Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully...
- 1989 Václav HavelVáclav HavelVáclav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...
- 1990 Harlem DésirHarlem DésirHarlem Désir is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France since 1999. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists....
and SOS RacismeSOS RacismeSOS Racisme is a French anti-racist NGO, founded in 1984. Its Spanish counterpart, SOS Racismo, is based in Barcelona.-Activities:SOS Racisme's main goal is to fight racial discrimination. Often the plaintiff in discrimination trials, the organization also offers support to immigrants and racial... - 1991 Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
- 1992 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour
- 1993 Students for Sarayevo
- 1994 Wei JingshengWei JingshengWei Jingsheng is a Chinese activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document Fifth Modernization on the "Democracy Wall" in Beijing in 1978. He is generally known for getting arrested and spending 15 years in prison due to the document...
- 1995 FatahFatahFataḥ is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization , a multi-party confederation. In Palestinian politics it is on the left-wing of the spectrum; it is mainly nationalist, although not predominantly socialist. Its official goals are found...
Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now - 1996 Casa AlianzaCasa AlianzaCasa Alianza is an international not for profit organisation and the Latin American branch of Covenant House. It is a charity and NGO whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of street children. It was first set up in Guatemala in 1981, then in both Honduras and Mexico in 1986, then in...
under the leadership of Bruce HarrisBruce HarrisBruce Harris OBE was the Executive Director of Casa Alianza, a charity whose aims are the rehabilitation and the defence of children.... - 1997 Salima GhezaliSalima GhezaliSalima Ghezali is an Algerian journalist and writer.A founding member of Women in Europe and the Maghreb, president of the association for the advancement of women, editor of the women's magazine NYSSA, which she founded, and editor of the French-language weekly La Nation, Salima Ghezali is an...
- 1998 Independent media in former YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
represented by Veran MatićVeran MaticVeran Matić , born on 1962 in Sabac, Serbia, is the Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Belgrade’s leading independent Radio and Television station B92 , Serbia’s commercially funded public service broadcaster, managing the company’s radio, TV, online, publishing and cultural services...
, Serbia, Senad Pećanin, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Viktor IvančićViktor IvancicViktor Ivančić is a Croatian journalist, best known as the founding member and long-time editor-in-chief of satirical weekly Feral Tribune....
, Croatia. - 1999 Swedish anti-racists: Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries and the Parent Group in KlippanKlippanKlippan may refer to:*Klippan, Sweden, a town in Skåne, Sweden*Klippan Municipality, Skåne, Sweden*Klippan , a district of Gothenburg, Sweden*Klippan , a popular sofa manufactured and sold by IKEA...
, representing the popular mobilization against growing racism and xenophobia in the country. - 2000 Bryan Stevenson
- 2001 Fazle Hasan AbedFazle Hasan AbedSir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG is a social worker with dual Bangladeshi/ British nationality and the founder and chairman of BRAC . For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award and the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen...
and girls' education - 2002 Hanan AshrawiHanan AshrawiHanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégé and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East...
- 2003 Hans BlixHans Blixis a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs . Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos...
- 2004 Lyudmila AlexeyevaLyudmila AlexeyevaLyudmila Mikhailovna Alexeyeva is a Russian historian, human rights activist, founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, and one of the few veterans of the Soviet dissident movement still active in modern Russia.-Soviet period:...
, Sergey Kovalyov, Anna PolitkovskayaAnna PolitkovskayaAnna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin... - 2005 Daw Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi, AC is a Burmese opposition politician and the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained...
- 2006 Kofi AnnanKofi AnnanKofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
, Mossaad Mohamed Ali - 2007 Parvin ArdalanParvin ArdalanParvin Ardalan, born 1967 in Tehran, is a leading Iranian women's rights activist, writer and journalist. She was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2007 for her struggle for equal rights for men and women in Iran. In the 1990s Ardalan, along with e.g...
- 2008 Denis MukwegeDenis MukwegeDenis Mukwege is a Congolese gynecologist. Working in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been gang-raped by Rwandan militia, Mukwege has probably become the world's leading expert on how to repair the internal physical damage caused by gang rape...
- 2009 Carsten JensenCarsten JensenCarsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He was born on 24 July 1952 in Marstal. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His novels, including I Have Seen the World Begin , deal with knowledge of the world...
- 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj