Marie-Louise Bertschinger (born 1909 or 1910) was a Swiss[1] humanitarian who worked in Ethiopia. She was stabbed to death in November 1970 and posthumously awarded the Nansen Refugee Award in 1976.
Career and death edit
Bertschinger was a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Bertschinger was stabbed while working at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees offices on the 19th November 1970,[2] and died on November 23 1970 from the knife wounds she sustained.[1] She was 60 at the time of her death.[1]
Legacy edit
She was posthumously awarded the Nansen Refugee Award in 1976.[3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "U.N. official dies". Singapore Herald. 23 November 1970. p. 9.
- ^ HCR Bulletin. (1968). Switzerland: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
- ^ "List of winners, 1954-2012" (PDF). UNHCR (in Spanish).