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29/08/22 21:30 PM IST

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel wins UNESCO Peace Prize 2022

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  • Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was awarded UNESCO Peace Prize for her ‘efforts to welcome refugees’.
About the prize 
  • In accordance with the Charter of UNESCO, the prize is given to living individuals who have made a significant contribution to maintaining and safeguarding peace.
  • The 2022 Félix Houphout-Boigny-UNESCO Peace Prize for her “courageous decision in 2015 to welcome more than 1,2 million refugees, notably from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea
About UNESCO Peace Prize
  • Formally known as the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, the UNESCO Peace Prize was constituted in 1989 under the United Nations Charter and the UNESCO Constitution.
  • The prize is awarded to a person, an organization or a private or governmental body for making a significant contribution for “promotion, study, safeguarding, or maintenance of peace.”
  • The prize has been named after Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the late former president of Côte d'Ivoire.
Source- The Hindu 

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