IRI Freedom Award

IRI Freedom Award is the annual award "to honor individuals who have worked to advance freedom and democracy in their countries and around the world" established by the International Republican Institute in 1995.[1]

Not to be confused with IRC Freedom Award or Association of Former Intelligence Officers Freedom Award.
Freedom Award
Awarded for"individuals who have worked to advance freedom and democracy in their countries and around the world"[1]
CountryUnited States
Presented byInternational Republican Institute
First awarded1995
Last awarded2015
Websitehttps://www.iri.org/events/freedom-award-2023/

Recipients
Year Image Recipient Nationality
1995 Alfredo Cristiani[2] El Salvador
1995 Miguel Obando y Bravo[2] Nicaragua
1996 Colin Powell[2] United States
1997 Ronald Reagan[2] United States
1998 Robert J. Dole[2] United States
1999 Aung San Suu Kyi[2] Burma
1999 Natan Sharansky[2] Israel
2001 Richard B. Cheney[2] United States
2001 Lynne Cheney[2] United States
2003 Bill Frist[2] United States
2003 Hamid Karzai[2] Afghanistan
2004 Condoleezza Rice[2] United States
2004 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, posthumously[2] United Nations
2005 George W. Bush[2] United States
2005 Pope John Paul II, posthumously[2] Roman Catholic Church
2006 Laura Bush[2] United States
2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf[2] Liberia
2007 Elías Antonio Saca González[2] El Salvador
2009 Henry A. Kissinger[2] United States
2010 George P. Shultz[2] United States
2011 James A. Baker III[2] United States
2011 Lawrence Eagleburger, posthumously[2] United States
2014 George H. W. Bush[2] United States
2014 Ukrainian Maidan Movement[2] Ukraine
2015 John A. Boehner[2] United States
2015 Mo Ibrahim[2] Sudan
2015 Boris Nemtsov, posthumously[2] Russia

References
  1. "Freedom Award". International Republican Institute. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
  2. "Freedom Award Honorees".
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