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Fridtjof Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, explorer, and League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [3] and the award was established in honour of his work to support refugees. [4] Van Heuven Goedhart felt that creating an award would increase the world's attention to the needs of refugees and increase global refugee aid.
The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly [1] in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments".
United Nations Development Programme: Community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity [6] International: Forest Hero Award: United Nations: Individuals who have devoted their lives to protecting forests [7] International: Glinka World Soil Prize: Global Soil Partnership of the Food and ...
Category: United Nations awards winners. 2 languages. ... UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards winners (28 P) UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal recipients (11 P)
United Nations Correspondents Association: Florence Nightingale Medal: International Committee of the Red Cross: Those distinguished in the nursing field [1] Nansen Refugee Award: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: In recognition of outstanding service to the cause of refugees, displaced or stateless people [2] Henry Dunant Medal
United Nations awards winners (5 C) Pages in category "United Nations awards" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) was created by UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan in 2005 as a United Nations General Trust Fund to support democratization efforts around the world. It was welcomed [ 1 ] by the General Assembly in the Outcome Document of the 2005 World Summit (A/RES/60/1, paragraphs 136–137) and was created by the ...
Gisele Bündchen awarded the 2014 UNEP Champions of the Earth Award.. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established Champions of the Earth in 2005 as an annual awards programme to recognize outstanding environmental leaders from the public and private sectors and from civil society.