Freedom Award

Freedom Award

The International Rescue Committee bestows its Freedom Award for extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom. According to the IRC, "The Freedom Award reveals the remarkable ability of an individual to shape history and change for the better a world moving toward freedom for all."

Recipients

Past recipients: [ [http://www.theirc.org/about/freedomaward.html IRC | The IRC Freedom Award ] ]
*1957 - Willy Brandt
*1958 - Winston Churchill
*1959 - William Joseph Donovan
*1960 - Richard E. Byrd
*1965 - George Meany
*1966 - David Dubinsky
*1967 - David Sarnoff
*1969 - Lucius D. Clay
*1970 - Jacob K. Javits
*1975 - Bruno Kreisky
*1976 - Leo Cherne
*1977 - Hubert Humphrey
*1978 - Joseph Buttinger
*1979 - Mary Pillsbury Lord (posthumously)
*1981 - Lane Kirkland and Irena Kirkland
*1987 - Elie Wiesel
*1987 - John C. Whitehead
*1989 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
*1989 - Lech Wałęsa
*1990 - Violeta Chamorro
*1991 - Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian
*1991 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
*1992 - Cyrus Vance
*1993 - George Soros - Distinguished Humanitarian Award
*1993 - Dwayne O. Andreas - Distinguished Public Service Award
*1994 - Theodore J. Forstmann - Distinguished Humanitarian Award
*1994 - Felix G. Rohatyn - Distinguished Public Service Award
*1995 - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Special Freedom Award Recipient, "in absentia"
*1995 - Sadako Ogata
*1995 - Richard Holbrooke
*1999 - Madeleine Albright
*2001 - John McCain
*2002 - Reynold Levy
*2002 - Hamid Karzai
*2003 - Václav Havel
*2004 - Roméo Dallaire - Distinguished Humanitarian Award
*2005 - George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton
*2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
*2007 - Antonio Guterres and Angelina Jolie

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