Olof Palme Prize

The Olof Palme Price, is an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Prize consists of a diploma and 50.000 US dollars.

Receivers of the Olof Palme Prize

• 1987 Cyril Ramaphosa

• 1988 UNs Peace Keeping Operation under the leadership of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

• 1989 Václav Havel

• 1990 Harlem Désir and SOS Racisme

• 1991 Amnesty International

• 1992 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour

• 1993 Students for Sarayevo

• 1994 Wei Jingsheng

• 1995 Fatah Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now

• 1996 Casa Alianza under the leadership of Bruce Harris

• 1997 Salina Ghezali

• 1998 Independent media in former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matic, Serbia, Senad Pecanin, Bosnia-Hercegovia and Victor Ivancic, Croatia.

• 1999 Swedish anti-racists: Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries and the Parent Group in Klippan, representing the popular mobilization against growing racism and xenophobia in the country.

• 2000 Bryan Stevenson

• 2001 Fazle Hasan Abed and girls education

• 2002 Hanan Ashrawi

• 2003 Hans Blix

• 2004 Ludmila Alekseyeva, Sergey Kovalyov, Anna Politkovskaya

• 2005 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

References

• Olof Palme Foundation