Angela Merkel to receive UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for protecting refugees at height of Syria crisis

Credits: Mary Theru, Barnaby Thompson, producers / Marion Viguier, editor | 03 October 2022

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany, will receive the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Each year, the award – named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen – is given to an individual, group or organization who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, internally displaced or stateless people.

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