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Freedom Award

The International Rescue Committee bestows its Freedom Award for extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom. According to the IRC, "The Freedom Award reveals the remarkable ability of an individual to shape history and change for the better a world moving toward freedom for all."

Recipients:

1957 - Willy Brandt
1958 - Winston Churchill
1959 - William Donovan
1960 - Richard E. Byrd
1965 - George Meany
1966 - David Dubinsky
1967 - David Sarnoff
1969 - Lucius D. Clay
1970 - Jacob K. Javitz
1975 - Bruno Kreisky
1976 - Leo Cherne
1977 - Hubert H. Humphrey
1978 - Joseph Buttinge
1979 - Mary Pillsbury Lord (posthumously)
1981 - Lane Kirkland and Irena Kirkland
1987 - Elie Wiesel
1987 - John C. Whitehead
1989 - Sadruddin Aga Khan
1989 - Lech Walesa
1990 - Violetta Barrios de Chammorro
1991 - Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian
1991 - Javier Perez de Cuellar
1992 - Cyrus Vance
1993 - George Soros - Distinguished Humanitarian Award
1993 - Dwayne O. Andreas - Distinguished Public Service Award
1994 - Theodore J. Forstmann - Distinguished Humanitarian Award
1994 - Felix G. Rohatyn - Distinguished Public Service Award
1995 - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Special Freedom Award Recipent, in absentia
1995 - Sadako Ogata
1995 - Richard Holbrooke
1999 - Madeleine Albright
2001 - John McCain
2002 - Hamid Karzai

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