Guterres to donate USD 500,000 prize from Human Fraternity Award to UN Refugee Agency ANI | Updated: Feb 04, 2021 01:21 IST
New York [US], February 4 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he will donate the prize of USD 500,000 he received upon acceptance of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
On Wednesday, Guterres was awarded the 2021 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity which recognizes the work in driving human progress and includes a prize of USD 1 million. Along with the UN chief, the award was given to Moroccan-French activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten. I have decided to donate the prize money - USD 500,000 - to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UN Refugee Agency] to buttress its indispensable efforts to protect the most vulnerable members of the human family - the forcibly displaced, Guterres said in a statement.
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In the light of the worsening situation experienced by the Saharawi people in the occupied territories of Sahara, Moroccan prisons and refugee camps, since the past day of the 13 November 2020 when Morocco decided to attack civilian Saharawi demonstrators in the buffer zone of El Guergarat, leading to the end of the 1991 ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front and the outbreak of a just war for independence and selfdetermination on the part of the Saharawi people, tired of waiting and being patient, in the face of repeated non-compliance of the United Nations, we, the organizations participating in the virtual WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, call on you, in the context of your responsibilities to the common good
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