Thursday, 27 September 2012

Sydney Peace Prize



Sydney Peace Prize




§  1998 – Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank for the poor
§  1999 – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
§  2000 – Xanana Gusmão, the poet-artist and president of East Timor
§  2001 – Sir William Deane, the former Governor-General of Australia
§  2003 – Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian academic and human rights campaigner
§  2004 – Arundhati Roy, Indian novelist and peace activist
§  2005 – Olara Otunnu, United Nations Under Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict from Uganda
§  2006 – Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
§  2007 – Hans Blix, chairman of the UN Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission
§  2008 – Patrick Dodson, chairman of the Lingiari Foundation
§  2009 – John Pilger, Australian journalist and documentary maker
§  2010  Vandana Shiva, Indian social justice and environmental activist, eco-feminist and author(Indian physicist and environmentalist)
§  2011 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist and activist
§  2012 – Sekai Holland, Zimbabwean Senator

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