2024 Nominations are NOW CLOSED
DEMOCRACY MEDAL WINNERS
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2023 Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong
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2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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2021 Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny
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2020 The Women of Belarus
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2019 Ekrem Ä°mamoÄŸlu, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey
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2018 Hong Kong Student Activists Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
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2017 Kemal Kilicdaroglu
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2016 Committee To Protect Journalist
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2015 Leopoldo Lopez
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2014 Ben Goddard
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2013 Co-Winners: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Trinidad & Tobago); Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (Jamaica)
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2012 Presidents George H.W. Bush & Bill Clinton
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2011 The Arab Spring
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2010 Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
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2009 Dr. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian Prime Minister
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2008 Datuk Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
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2007 The People of Indonesia
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2006 Evelyn Dubrow, Director Emeritus IAPC
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2005 Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
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2004 Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Founder National Association in Support of Children’s Rights, Iran
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2003 Joe Napolitan & Michel Bongrand, Founding members of the IAPC
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2002 Morgan Tsvangirai, Chairman, Movement of Democratic Change, Zimbabwe
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2001 Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia
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2000 George Mitchell, Former US Senator
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1999 Milo Djukanovic, President of the Republic of Montenegro
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1998 Martin Lee, Chairman, Hong Kong Democratic Party
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1997 International Foundation for Election Systems
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1996 Yitzhak Rabin (posthumous), Prime Minister of Israel
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1995 Aung San Suu Kyi, National Leauge for Democracy in Mayarmar
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1994 Jimmy Carter, Former President of the U.S.
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1993 F. W. de Klerk, State President, Republic of South Africa And Nelson Mandela, President, African National Congress
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1992 Hans-Dietrich Genscher, 18 years Foreign Minister
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1991 Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Republic
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1990 Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia
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1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR
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1988 No Medal awarded
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1987 Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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1986 Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
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1985 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany
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1984 Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina
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1983 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
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1982 Lech Walesa, Polish Solidarity leader