The IRC Freedom Award (original) (raw)

The International Rescue Committee first bestowed its Freedom Award for extraordinary contributions to the cause of refugees and human freedom to Willy Brandt. The year was 1957. The list of those who have received the Freedom Award reveals the remarkable ability of an individual to shape history and change for the better a world moving toward freedom for all.

1957 Willy Brandt

1958 Winston Churchill

1959 William Donovan

1960 Richard E. Byrd

1965 George Meany

1966 David Dubinsky

1967 David Sarnoff

1969 Lucius D. Clay

1970 Jacob K. Javits

1975 Bruno Kreisky

1976 Leo Cherne

1977 Hubert H. Humphrey

1978 Joseph Buttinger

1979 Mary Pillsbury Lord (postumously)

1981 Lane Kirkland and Irena Kirkland

1987 Elie Wiesel

John C. Whitehead

1989 Sadruddin Aga Khan

Lech Walesa

1990 Violetta Barrios de Chammorro

1991 Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian

Javier Perez de Cuellar

1992 Cyrus Vance

1993 George Soros - Distinguished Humanitarian Award

Dwayne O. Andreas - Distinguished Public Service Award

1994 Theodore J. Forstmann - Distinguished Humanitarian Award

Felix G. Rohatyn - Distinguished Public Service Award

1995 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Special Freedom Award Recipent, in absentia

Sadako Ogata

Richard Holbrooke

1997 Robert P. DeVecchi

1998 Madeleine Albright

2001 John McCain

2002 Reynold Levy

Hamid Karzai

2003 Vaclav Havel

2004 Romeo Dallaire - Distinguished Humanitarian Award

2005 George H.W. Bush and William J.Clinton

2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

2007 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Antonio Guterres and Angelina Jolie

2008 Kofi Annan

2011 The Brokaw Family: Tom and Meredith Brokaw;

Dr. Jennifer Brokaw; Andrea Brokaw Simon;

Sarah Brokaw

2012 John C. Whitehead

2013 George Soros

2014 The Humanitarian Aid Worker

2015 Strive Masiyiwa

2016 Spyros Galinos

2017 Michael Bloomberg

Liv Ullman - John C. Whitehead Humanitarian Award