It is a great honor to be chosen as a 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate. This year the Sunhak Peace Prize focuses its attention on the global refugee crisis. It is a privilege to be recognized along with Dr. Gino Strada as someone who has contributed to helping refugees and helping in their resettlement.I, myself, […]
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I am honoured to receive the Sunhak Peace Prize. It encourages EMERGENCY and me to multiple efforts to pursue our mission of promoting peace and human rights worldwide. In 1994, I founded EMERGENCY with the aim of guaranteeing high standard, free-of-charge care to the victims of war and poverty. For 22 years, EMERGENCY has been treating over
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Devoted her life to Afghan ‘refugee education’Sakena Yacoobi, the mother of Afghan education, has been a pioneering and devoted refugee educator for 21 years with the belief that education is the key to social reconstruction even under severe conditions of war and occupation. Dr. Yacoobi began educating teachers in Afghan refugee camps where they had
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Disseminating emergency aid at the forefront of conflict in Africa ∙ Middle East Gino Strada is an Italian surgeon who, for 28 years, has been providing humanitarian relief to the victims of war and poverty, and refugees around the world. He began his career as a war surgeon with the International Committee of the Red
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Dr. Gino Strada, who has provided medical and surgical care in 17 African and Middle Eastern nations for a quarter-century, and Sakena Yacoobi, who established multiple refugee-educational programs against considerable odds in Afghanistan, were named as co-recipients of the 2nd annual Sunhak Peace Price. An Italian surgeon and an Afghan educator who consistently contributed to
Hello, this is the Sunhak Peace Prize blog. Before introducing main achievements of the laureate, let me explain the background.To suggest alternative solutions for food crisis, Dr. Gupta went here and there in Asia and Africa. He is known as a saint from India in Southeast Asia slums. Dr. Gupta who thought other’s hunger as
Hello~ this is the Sunhak Peace Prize for future generations.We’d like to show you a video introducing the achievements of President Anote Tong the first laureate of the Sunhak Peace Prize.He is a global leader whose dedication and passionate leadership helped to bring about a consensus by the international community concerning climate peace. He dedicated
This is the Sunhak Peace Prize blog. Before introducing main achievements of the laureate, let me explain the background I’d like to call President Anote Tong a hero confronting global warming at the forefront of climate change. However, global warming is not only an issue for him. All human beings have to take responsibility and
Kiribati is located on the vicinity of the equator and the population is more than 105,000. It is considered very vulnerable to rising sea-levels because it consists of small islands with an average altitude above sea level of 2m. President of Kiribati Anote Tong has led the country since 2003. He has been speaking out
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President Tong’s interview upon receiving the Sunhak Peace Prize 12 June, 2015 http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/kiribati-president-anote-tong-garners-sunhak-peace-prize-for-climate-work/1458320 Tong : It is exciting. Of course I have been nominated also from Australia I believe for the Nobel Peace Prize and so this came to me as a complete surprise. I am excited. I think it would add a lot of
