The Nobel Peace Prize to UNHCR (1954)

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The Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. UNHCR has been awarded the Prize twice: in 1954 (“for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world”) and in 1981 (“for promoting the fundamental rights of refugees”).

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UNHCR

4 November 1955

Copy of the letter sent by the Nobel Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, informing that the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the UNHCR.

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UNHCR

4 November 1955

Cable message by the UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, to the High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, congratulating him for the award of Nobel Peace Prize 1954 to the UNHCR, as recognition of the Organizations’ valuable humanitarian work.

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UNHCR

12 December 1955

The first three and the last page of the speech delivered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, for the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UNHCR, at the award ceremony held in Oslo. The speech's title was "Refugees’ problems and their Solutions."

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart delivers his speech at the αward ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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UNHCR

13 July 1956

Professor Konstantinos Efstathiadis, the Greek Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in a speech to the Council pays tribute to the first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. van Heuven Goedhart, who passed away on 8 July 1956. The Greek Representative proposes crafting a bust from Tinos marble, commemorating the departed’s initiative in using the monetary award from the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize to support the endeavours of UNHCR on the island and the closure of the refugee centre that had been established there. In addition, he suggested for the bust to be placed at the UNHCR Headquarters.

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UNHCR

January 1956

Cover and articles of The UNESCO Courier magazine, dedicated to the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and its activities on the island of Tinos.