The 2022 UNHCR #NansenAward winners: 🔷Former Federal Chancellor of Germany Dr. Angela Merkel 🔷Humanitarian organization Meikswe Myanmar 🔷Mbera Fire Brigade, Mauritania 🔷Women’s rights advocate Vicenta González, Costa Rica 🔷Dr. Nagham Hasan, Doctor and activist, Iraq | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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The 2022 UNHCR #NansenAward winners: 🔷Former Federal Chancellor of Germany Dr. Angela Merkel 🔷Humanitarian organization Meikswe Myanmar 🔷Mbera Fire Brigade, Mauritania 🔷Women’s rights advocate Vicenta González, Costa Rica 🔷Dr. Nagham Hasan, Doctor and activist, Iraq | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Angela Merkel awarded top UN refugee prize, for aid to Syrians fleeing war
Angela Merkel awarded top UN refugee prize, for aid to Syrians fleeing war
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🎓 This Afghan refugee and Nansen Refugee Award regional winner has become the first ever refugee doctor in Pakistan. She believes education was the key to her journey. 🗝 | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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🎓 This Afghan refugee and Nansen Refugee Award regional winner has become the first ever refugee doctor in Pakistan. She believes education was the key to her journey. 🗝 | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Abdullahi Mire is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Global Laureate. But what motives him? What inspires him? We asked the #NansenAward winner to find out. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Abdullahi Mire is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Global Laureate. But what motives him? What inspires him? We asked the #NansenAward winner to find out. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Meet Joint UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award winner for Africa Naaba Wogbo, meaning Chief Elephant. 🐘 He is honored for his efforts and determination In advocating for the forcibly displaced in Burkina Faso, particularly vulnerable groups and survivors of gender-based violence. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Meet Joint UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award winner for Africa Naaba Wogbo, meaning Chief Elephant. 🐘 He is honored for his efforts and determination In advocating for the forcibly displaced in Burkina Faso, particularly vulnerable groups and survivors of gender-based violence. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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⚡Meet the UNHCR #NansenAward 2022 regional winner for the Middle East and North Africa—Dr. Nagham Hasan, a gynaecologist from Iraq who helps fellow Yazidi women who were forced into slavery by ISIS to recover from their trauma. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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⚡Meet the UNHCR #NansenAward 2022 regional winner for the Middle East and North Africa—Dr. Nagham Hasan, a gynaecologist from Iraq who helps fellow Yazidi women who were forced into slavery by ISIS to recover from their trauma. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Meet Negara Nazari. Education Advocate. Afghan woman. Refugee. 2025 #NansenAward winner for Asia-Pacific. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Nominate your humanitarian champion by 31 October 2021! Our Raoul Wallenberg Prize 2022 honours extraordinary humanitarian achievements of individuals, groups or organisations and is awarded every two years. Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. During the later stages of the Second World War he saved the lives of thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary. He died in detention in the Soviet Union. The prize is worth €10 000 and the award ceremony w
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👨🏻‍⚕️🧕🏼🧕🏼👩🏽‍⚕️👴🏿 Meet 7 heroes. They're refugees. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Humanity took centre stage at the 2025 #NansenAward. Extraordinary people and organisations were recognised for standing with refugees and displaced communities around the world. From powerful personal stories to moments of collective solidarity, the night honoured courage, compassion and impact. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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The United Nations has received many awards in its 73 years, but did you know that it has also won an Oscar? In 1947, the UN short film “First Steps” -- which focuses on c | United Nations
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Run. Toussaint Chiza brought his voice and personal story to the #NansenAward ceremony. His performance is more than music — it fills the room with emotion and a sense of shared humanity. 💙 Singing for the people who are changing the world, inspired by the stories of refugees and his own journey. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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Hope. Resilience. Strength. These values shape everything #NansenAward winner for the Middle East and North Africa, Taban Shoresh, does through her organization, The Lotus Flower. | UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
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🎉Congratulations to chief Martin Azia Sodea, who was awarded the 2025 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Nansen Award for welcoming thousands of Central African refugees into his village in eastern Cameroon. His message? “Never close the door to people in distress, but welcome and share to save the whole world.” 🎥UNTV/Juliette Schoebelen, Samia Dahou, Yushi Zhang | UN Geneva
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