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Nansen Award
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- Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently received the Nansen Refugee Award.
- While Merkel was the Chancellor in 2015 and 2016, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, especially from Syria.
- The Nansen Award committee also honoured four regional winners.
- These include
- A refugee support cacao cooperative in Costa Rica in the Americas,
- a volunteer refugee firefighting group in Mauritia in West Africa,
- Humanitarian organization Meikse Myanmar that helps internally displaced people in Asia and the Pacific and
- An Iraqi gynaecologist known for providing medical and psychological aid to Yazidi girls and women in North Africa and Middle East.
- The Nansen Award is conferred every year by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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