Olof Palme Prize

The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars.

The prize was established in February 1987 and is awarded by the "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.

Receivers of the Olof Palme Prize

• 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 Sarayevo
• 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 former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matić, Serbia, Senad Pećanin, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Viktor Ivančić, 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 Daw 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^[1]

References

External links

• Olof Palme Foundation
• All winners