Katrine Camilleri laughs with a Somali refugee woman she has been representing in Malta. © UNHCR/A.Pace
The Nansen Refugee Award

The UN refugee agency on September 18 announced that this year's Nansen Refugee Award will go to Katrine Camilleri, a 37-year old lawyer with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Malta, who works to defend the rights of refugees and migrants.

Camilleri was chosen in recognition of her exceptional dedication to the refugee cause and her outstanding contribution through JRS in the protection and assistance to refugees.



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