Olof Palme Prize Explained

Olof Palme Prize
Country:	Sweden
Established:	February 1987
Status:	Active

The Olof Palme Prize is an annual Swedish prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 100,000 US dollars.^[1]

The prize was established in February 1987^[2] and is awarded by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security (sv|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.

Recipients

Sourcs:^[3]

• 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 Sarajevo
• 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 the former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matić of B92 radio (Serbia), Senad Pećanin of Dani weekly (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Viktor Ivančić of Feral Tribune weekly (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 Aung San Suu Kyi
• 2006 Kofi Annan,
• 2007 Parvin Ardalan
• 2008 Denis Mukwege
• 2009 Carsten Jensen
• 2010 Eyad al-Sarraj
• 2011 Lydia Cacho, Roberto Saviano^[4]
• 2012 Radhia Nasraoui, Waleed Sami Abu AlKhair
• 2013 Rosa Taikon
• 2014 Xu Youyu
• 2015 Gideon Levy, Mitri Raheb^[5]
• 2016 Spyridon Galinos, Giusi Nicolini
• 2017 Hédi Fried, Emerich Roth
• 2018 Daniel Ellsberg
• 2019 John le Carré^[6]
• 2020 Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation^[7]
• 2022 Patricia Gualinga^[8]
• 2023, Eren Keskin, Narges Mohammadi^{[9] [10]}
• 2024 Bellingcat^{[11] [12] [13]}

See also

• List of peace activists

External links

• Olof Palme Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flood . Alison . Cain . Sian . John le Carré wins $100,000 prize for 'contribution to democracy' . . 10 January 2020 . 30 October 2024.
2. Web site: The Olof Palme Prize 2023 . Via TT . sv . 30 October 2024.
3. Web site: Prize recipients . OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND . 20 January 2024 . sv . 30 October 2024.
4. Web site: 2011 – Lydia Cacho och Roberto Saviano . 23 January 2012 . Olof Palmes minnesfond . 23 January 2012.
5. Web site: 2015 – Gideon Levy and Mitri Raheb . 7 January 2016 . Olof Palmes minnesfond . 9 January 2016.
6. Web site: John le Carré on Brexit: 'It's breaking my heart' – Olof Palme acceptance speech . 1 February 2020 . The Guardian . 1 February 2020.
7. News: 29 January 2021 . Black Lives Matter foundation wins Swedish human rights prize . en-GB . BBC News . 30 January 2021.
8. Web site: Prize recipients . OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND . 1 June 2014 . sv . 24 June 2022.
9. Web site: Prize recipients 2023 . OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND . 9 January 2023 . sv . 22 May 2023.
10. Web site: Heflik . Katharina . Menschenrechte: Drei Frauenrechtsaktivistinnen mit Olof-Palme-Preis ausgezeichnet . . 9 January 2023 . de . 30 October 2024.
11. Web site: 2024 – Bellingcat . OLOF PALMES MINNESFOND . 8 January 2024 . sv . 30 October 2024.
12. Web site: Bellingcat får Olof Palmepriset – avslöjar desinformation . SVT Nyheter . 30 January 2024 . sv . 30 October 2024.
13. Web site: Nevéus . Ingmar . Datordetektiverna i Bellingcat får prestigefyllda Palmepriset . DN.se . 8 January 2024 . sv . 30 October 2024.