The Olof Palme Prize is an annual Swedish prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 100,000 US dollars.[1]
| Olof Palme Prize | |
|---|---|
| Country | Sweden |
| Status | Active |
| Established | February 1987 |
| Website | https://www.palmefonden.se  |
The prize was established in February 1987[2] and is awarded by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security (Swedish: Olof Palmes minnesfond för internationell förståelse och gemensam säkerhet), a fund that was established by Olof Palme's family and the Swedish Social Democratic Party in honor of Olof Palme's memory.
Recipients
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- 1987 Cyril Ramaphosa
- 1988 UNs Peace Keeping Operation under the leadership of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- 1989 Václav Havel
- 1990 Harlem Désir and SOS Racisme
- 1991 Amnesty International
- 1992 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour
- 1993 Students for Sarajevo
- 1994 Wei Jingsheng
- 1995 Fatah Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now
- 1996 Casa Alianza under the leadership of Bruce Harris
- 1997 Salima Ghezali
- 1998 Independent media in the former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matić of B92 radio (Serbia), Senad Pećanin of Dani weekly (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Viktor Ivančić of Feral Tribune weekly (Croatia).
- 1999 Swedish anti-racists: Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries and the Parent Group in Klippan, representing the popular mobilization against growing racism and xenophobia in the country.
- 2000 Bryan Stevenson
- 2001 Fazle Hasan Abed and girls' education
- 2002 Hanan Ashrawi
- 2003 Hans Blix
- 2004 Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Sergey Kovalyov, Anna Politkovskaya
- 2005 Aung San Suu Kyi
- 2006 Kofi Annan, Mossaad Mohamed Ali
- 2007 Parvin Ardalan
- 2008 Denis Mukwege
- 2009 Carsten Jensen
- 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj
- 2011 Lydia Cacho, Roberto Saviano[4]
- 2012 Radhia Nasraoui, Waleed Sami Abu AlKhair
- 2013 Rosa Taikon
- 2014 Xu Youyu
- 2015 Gideon Levy, Mitri Raheb[5]
- 2016 Spyridon Galinos, Giusi Nicolini
- 2017 Hédi Fried, Emerich Roth
- 2018 Daniel Ellsberg
- 2019 John le Carré[1][6]
- 2020 Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation[7]
- 2022 Patricia Gualinga[8]
- 2023 Marta Chumalo, Eren Keskin, Narges Mohammadi[9][10]
- 2024 Bellingcat[11][12][13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Flood, Alison; Cain, Sian (10 January 2020). "John le Carré wins $100,000 prize for 'contribution to democracy'". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "The Olof Palme Prize 2023". Via TT (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "Prize recipients". OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND (in Swedish). 20 January 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "2011 – Lydia Cacho och Roberto Saviano". Olof Palmes minnesfond. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ "2015 – Gideon Levy and Mitri Raheb". Olof Palmes minnesfond. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "John le Carré on Brexit: 'It's breaking my heart' – Olof Palme acceptance speech". The Guardian. 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize". BBC News. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Prize recipients". OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND (in Swedish). 1 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Prize recipients 2023". OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND (in Swedish). 9 January 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ Heflik, Katharina (9 January 2023). "Menschenrechte: Drei Frauenrechtsaktivistinnen mit Olof-Palme-Preis ausgezeichnet". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "2024 – Bellingcat". OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND (in Swedish). 8 January 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ "Bellingcat får Olof Palmepriset – avslöjar desinformation". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 30 January 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- ^ Nevéus, Ingmar (8 January 2024). "Datordetektiverna i Bellingcat får prestigefyllda Palmepriset". DN.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 October 2024.
External links
edit- Olof Palme Foundation (in Swedish and English)