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Nansen Award
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- Established in 1954, the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups and organizations, as well as internally displaced and stateless people.
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced that Abdullahi Mire will be the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s 2023 global laureate.
- Mire is a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya.
- He found work in Kenya as a journalist and set up the Refugee Youth Education HubLink.
- It is an external, refugee-led organization.
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