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- Germany's former chancellor Angela Merkel received a prestigious UNESCO Peace Prize 2022.
- Merkel was hailed for welcoming more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers to Germany in 2015 and 2016.
- She was elected as first women Chancellor of Germany in 2005 and served 16 years.
- UNESCO’s Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize was created in 1989.
- It honours living individuals and active public or private bodies or institutions that have made significant contribution to peace.
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