SADAKO OGATA OGATA 1995 Liberty Medal Recipient
"There is no greater champion and
activist on behalf of the refugees of the world than Mrs. Ogata. In her four
years as High Commissioner for Refugees, she has been their protector and
provider of relief…No one has played a greater humanitarian role in this
regard, or is a more significant symbol of future aspirations, than Sadako Ogata."
Liberty Medal International Selection Commission
"Through this award, you are honoring
the courage and devotion of 5,000 men and women who work for the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees. Many of them are risking their lives daily in
distant and dangerous places to protect and assist people who have been forced
to flee their homes. As we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the United
Nations, I also take this award as a recognition of the valuable work that many
of the UN agencies have been carrying out over the past five decades. Above
all, by bestowing this tribute on the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, you are expressing solidarity with 27 million refugees and displaced
persons around the world. You are recognizing the plight of refugee children
scarred by war, the innate strength of refugee women in adversity and
exile." ...more
Sadako Ogata
Liberty Medal acceptance speech, July 4,
1995
Sadako Ogata
Sadako
Ogata is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Common Cause,
and the Committee for Economic Development.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Mary M.
Boies is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and married to David
Boies.
David Boies
is married to Mary M. Boies, and a
trustee at the National Constitution Center.
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a trustee at the National Constitution Center.
Richard
Dreyfuss is a governing board member for Common
Cause, and was a trustee at the National
Constitution Center.
Ellen
Alemany is a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development, and a trustee at the National Constitution Center.
Benjamin
W. Heineman Jr. is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and was a trustee at the National Constitution Center.
Anthony
C. Zinni is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was a trustee at the National Constitution Center.
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