Nansen Refugee Award
Nansen Refugee Award
Abdullahi Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureate.
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The 2023 Global Laureate is Abdullahi Mire, a journalist and former refugee from Somalia who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of displaced children and youth in Kenya.
Read more about the 2023 winners.
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The win is not for me alone. It is for all the volunteers I work with… It is for the children in the schools.
Winners pose for a photo with the High Commissioner at the 2023 Nansen ceremony in Geneva.
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The ceremony
Sister Rosita Milesi and several regional winners will come to Geneva to accept their awards at a special ceremony on 14 October 2024.
Meet the 2024 Regional Winners
The 2024 Regional Winners of the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award were selected from hundreds of nominees for their outstanding work with refugees, internally displaced and stateless people.
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Africa | Maïmouna Ba
Maïmouna Ba is a peace activist in Burkina Faso who has helped more than 100 displaced children return to the classroom and put over 400 displaced women on a path to financial independence.
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Asia-Pacific | Deepti Gurung
Deepti Gurung is a Nepali activist who led a remarkable campaign to reform her country’s citizenship laws after learning that her two daughters had become stateless.
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Europe | Jîn Davod
Jîn Davod is a young social entrepreneur who drew on her own experience as a refugee to create an online platform that provides mental health support to trauma survivors.
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Middle East and North Africa: Asia Al-Mashreqi
This female leader is the founder and CEO of the Sustainable Development Foundation, which has provided humanitarian assistance to nearly 2 million individuals in Yemen, including refugees, returnees, internally displaced people, and host communities.
About the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
Since 1954, more than 60 individuals, groups or organizations have received the Award for their extraordinary service to refugees, displaced and stateless people.
