Freedom Award

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Not to be confused with IRI Freedom Award.
Freedom Award
Awarded for "extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom"[1]
Country United States
Presented by International Rescue Committee
First awarded 1957
Last awarded 2013
Official website IRC Freedom Award

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) 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."[1]

The IRC was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein,[2] and made its first Freedom Award in 1957, to German politician Willy Brandt, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.[3] The following year, the award was presented to Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during the Second World War, for his "dedicated and devoted service to the cause of human liberty".[4] The first joint recipients of the award were Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena who won the prize in 1981.[5] Lane was honored for his "long devotion to the cause of refugees" while Irena was described as "very much a human rights activist".[5] Chinese dissidents Li Shuxian and Fang Lizhi were jointly honored in 1991;[1][6] two American Presidents, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton took the prize as a pair in 2005, and film actress Angelina Jolie and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees High Commissioner António Guterres received the award together in 2007.[7]

Since the first award presentation in 1957, the IRC has made it to 46 recipients, 24 of which were American; the majority of awards have been to politicians. The 1995 presentation was made in absentia to Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, Aung San Suu Kyi.[8][9] The 2011 award ceremony was held in New York City, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in November, where the presentation was made to the Brokaw family.[10] In 2012, John C. Whitehead received the prize for a second time, the only person to do so.[1]

Recipients

Year Image Recipient Nationality References
1957 A smiling, older man in a dark suit with a narrow-striped shirt and wide-striped tie. He has receding but long, wavy hair. Willy Brandt  German [5]
1958 Sir Winston S Churchill.jpg Winston Churchill  British [4]
1959 William Donovan.jpg William Joseph Donovan  American [1]
1960 Lt com r e byrd.jpg Richard Evelyn Byrd  American [1]
1965 75px George Meany  American [11]
1966 David Dubinsky.jpg David Dubinsky  American [1]
1967 DavidSarnoff 1922.jpg David Sarnoff  American [12]
1969 Lucius-d-clay-80-87.jpg Lucius D. Clay  American [1]
1970 Jacob Javits.jpg Jacob K. Javits  American [12]
1975 Kreisky-Koechler-Vienna-1980 Crop.jpg Bruno Kreisky  Austrian [13]
1976 — Leo Cherne  American [1]
1977 H Humphrey.jpg Hubert Humphrey  American [11]
1978 — Joseph Buttinger  Austrian [1]
1979 — Mary Pillsbury Lord[A]  American [1]
1981 Lkirkland.jpg Lane Kirkland
Irena Kirkland		  American
 American		 [5]
1987 75px Elie Wiesel  Romanian [11]
1987 — John C. Whitehead  American [14]
1989 75px Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan  French
 Iranian
  Swiss		 [1]
1989 Lech Walesa - 2009.jpg Lech Wałęsa  Polish [11]
1990 Violeta Chamorro  Nicaraguan [1]
1991 — Fang Lizhi
Li Shuxian		  Chinese
 Chinese		 [1]
1991 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.JPG Javier Pérez de Cuéllar  Peruvian [15]
1992 CyrusVanceSoS.jpg Cyrus Vance  American [12]
1993 75px George Soros[B]  Hungarian [7]
1993 — Dwayne Andreas[C]  American [1]
1994 — Theodore J. Forstmann[B]  American [16]
1994 — Felix Rohatyn[C]  Austrian [16]
1995 Aung San Suu Kyi 17 November 2011.jpg Aung San Suu Kyi[D]  Burmese [9]
1995 Sadako Ogata.jpg Sadako Ogata  Japanese [9]
1995 75px Richard Holbrooke  American [1]
1997 — Robert P. De Vecchi  American [12]
1999 Albrightmadeleine.jpg Madeleine Albright  American [12]
2001 John McCain official portrait 2009.jpg John McCain  American [17]
2002 — Reynold Levy  American [18]
2002 Hamid Karzai in February 2009.jpg Hamid Karzai  Afghan [19]
2003 75px Václav Havel  Czech [9]
2004 Darfur-Rally 019.jpg Roméo Dallaire[B]  Canadian [20]
2005 43 George H.W. Bush 3x4.jpg
Bill Clinton.jpg		 George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton		  American
 American		 [21]
2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf detail 071024-D-9880W-027.jpg Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  Liberian [22]
2007 António Guterres.jpg
75px		 António Guterres
Angelina Jolie		  Portuguese
 American		 [9]
2008 Kofi Annan.jpg Kofi Annan  Ghanaian [23]
2011 75px Brokaw family  American [10]
2012 — John C. Whitehead  American [24]
2013 75px George Soros[B]  Hungarian [7][25]
2014 The humanitarian aid worker [26]

Notes

  • A ^ Lord's award was made posthumously.[1]
  • B ^ Distinguished Humanitarian Award[1]
  • C ^ Distinguished Public Service Award[1]
  • D ^ Special Freedom Award Recipient, in absentia[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  26. ↑ Honoring the humanitarian aid worker, Rescue, 2014
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