Ganadores en años anteriores
Ganadores en años anteriores
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Más de 60 ganadores del Premio Nansen
Eleanor Roosevelt no solo fue la primera presidenta de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU y primera dama de Estados Unidos, sino que también fue la primera persona en recibir el Premio Nansen de ACNUR para los Refugiados, en 1954.
Desde entonces, más de sesenta personas, grupos y organizaciones han recibido este galardón por la extraordinaria labor que han realizado en favor de las personas refugiadas, desplazadas internas y apátridas. Además del ganador global, ACNUR también selecciona ganadores regionales desde 2017.
El ganador global de 2023 es Abdullahi Mire, un periodista y antiguo refugiado de Somalia que ha defendido el derecho a la educación de niñas, niños y adolescentes en Kenia.
Ganadores globales
![Un hombre somalí que usa anteojos sonríe a la cámara, sentado en una biblioteca](/sites/default/files/RF1318145.jpg)
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Ganadores regionales
![La Chava (left) discusses with local leader, Geidy Ismare Diripar (right) and Uldarias Guafico (center) about the shared goals to improve the community living conditions.
The Wounaan community is the largest indigenous community in Medio San Juan.
Historically, it has been a recipient of other Wounaan communities displaced by the conflict.
It has suffered several massive displacements (mainly during the FARC-EP period) and they
are is currently confined. The ELN recently released two people they were holding from the
Wounaan people, where Chava played a key role.
Confinement puts whole villages on hold. It is a strategy used by armed actors to control the
communities. They cannot leave the village and are isolated for an unspecific period of time
marked by the armed group. It leaves families reliant on dwindling home supplies and unable
to engage in essential activities like fishing, hunting, and farming. Economic pursuits and
education are also severely restricted, exacerbating the community's hardships. Colombia. Chocó is a state located on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Majority of its population are Afro-
Colombian and there are also indijenous populations. Both communities, Afro-Colombian
and Indigenous, face high levels uf unmet basic needs and are disproportionately affected
by the ongoing arm](/sites/default/files/RF1313516.jpg)
![Cuatro personas: a la izquierda, un hombre y una mujer están de pie viendo imágenes en la cámara que tienen en las manos; a la derecha, dos hombres hacen lo mismo, pero están sentados.](/sites/default/files/RF1311859.jpg)
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![Community mobilizer Roukiatou Maiga outside her home in Dori, Burkina Faso. She is president of the Women’s Association Djam Weli (Peace is Good) and was one of the first people to show hospitality and generosity towards those forcibly displaced in Dori in the Sahel region. Maiga is joint regional winner for Africa of UNHCR’s 2021 Nansen Refugee Award. Burkina Faso. Community organizer wins joint UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award regional prize for Africa](/sites/default/files/RF1148631.jpg)
![Santiago Ávila, Director of Jovenes Contra la Violenza (JCV) (left), with Neptali Lisandro Valle Dubon, a volunteer coordinator at JCV, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras. Social worker wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award regional prize for the Americas](/sites/default/files/RF1152547.jpg)
![Doctor Saleema Rehman visits the school that she attended as a child. During these visits, she helps to raise awareness of the importance of education.
Rehman is a 29-year-old Afghan refugee, living and practicing medicine in Pakistan. As an Afghan refugee, she faced significant barriers in her quest to become a medical doctor.
Nevertheless, in 2014, she completed her five-year bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery, and upon graduation she became the first-ever female Afghan refugee doctor of Turkmen origin. Pakistan. Trailblazing refugee doctor wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award regional prize for Asia](/sites/default/files/RF1159126.jpg)
![Human rights lawyer Nikola Kovačević stands in an abandoned building near the border of Serbia.
Kovačević has spent years advocating for the human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers in Serbia. He has represented almost 30 per cent of the asylum-seekers who have been granted protection in Serbia. Serbia. Human rights lawyer wins UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award regional prize for Europe](/sites/default/files/RF1153102.jpg)
![“I feel good healing my fellow refugees in these tough times.”
Sabuni Francoise Chikunda, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is photographed at Nakivale settlement in Uganda where her work in teaching, mentoring and counselling women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence has earned her the title Nansen Refugee Award Regional Winner for Africa. Uganda. Congolese activist wins Nansen Refugee Award regional prize for Africa](/sites/default/files/RF2300528.jpg)
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![Campaigner Tetiana Barantsova and UNHCR staff visit the Oblast Centre for Complex Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities in Velykyi Bereznyi village in Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region. Tetiana has been helping people with disabilities escape conflict areas and restart their lives in safety since 2014, when she was forced to flee her home city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. For her work in 2014, she was chosen as the regional winner for Europe of the 2020 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Awards. Ukraine. Former regional Nansen winner helps those with disabilities reach safety](/sites/default/files/RF1220944.jpg)
![Rana Dajani, the Jordanian founder and director of We Love Reading, is photographed in a park in Richmond, Virginia. United States. Reading advocate is Nansen Refugee Award Regional Winner for MENA](/sites/default/files/RF2302634.jpg)
!["We started this work in 2003 when there were serious human rights violations and abuse of women. I felt within me that call for human dignity. Even though I don’t have the means, I cannot keep quiet. I can do something."
Congolese human rights activist, Evariste Mfaume, at Lusenda camp. Democratic Republic of Congo. Peace villages and agricultural empowerment win Evariste Mfaume a regional Nansen Refugee Award](/sites/default/files/RF2237988.jpg)
![LGBT activist Bianka Rodriguez has her portrait taken in downtown San Salvador. El Salvador. Transgender activist wins UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award for the Americas region](/sites/default/files/RF2242883.jpg)
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![Humanitarian Corridors coordinator for the Federation of Evangelical Churches, Simone Scotta, talks with Syrian refugees who have just arrived at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on a flight from Lebanon. Italy. Humanitarian Corridors wins Europe region Nansen Refugee Award](/sites/default/files/RF2237918.jpg)
![Abeer Khreisha, a Jordanian volunteer living in Madaba, is named UNHCR Nansen Award Winner for the Middle East and North Africa at a ceremony in Amman. Jordan. ‘Mother of Syrians’ wins Nansen Refugee Award for Middle East](/sites/default/files/RF2260890.jpg)
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Año con año, el Premio Nansen de ACNUR para los Refugiados reconoce a individuos, grupos u organizaciones por la extraordinaria labor que han realizado para proteger y asistir a las personas refugiadas, desplazadas internas y apátridas.