{"id":7281,"date":"2023-12-17T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:22:02","slug":"norway-donates-nok-9-million-to-wto-fisheries-funding-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=7281","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 Nansen Award Winner is Abdullahi Mire a former refugee, who was resettled in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The 2023 Nansen Award Winner is Abdullahi Mire a former refugee, who was resettled in Norway<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today in the United\u00a0Nations\u00a0press briefing, the\u00a0Office of the\u00a0High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR) announced that Abdullahi Mire \u2013 a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children in Kenya \u2013 will be the\u00a0UNHCR\u00a0Nansen Refugee Award\u2019s 2023 global laureate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAbdullahi Mire is living proof that transformative ideas can spring from within displaced communities,\u201d\u00a0declared Filippo Grandi, the United\u00a0Nations\u00a0High Commissioner for Refugees. \u201cHe has shown great resourcefulness and tenacity in strengthening the quality of refugee education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Born in Somalia, Mire grew up in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. He was eventually resettled to Norway, but a yearning to serve his community drew him back. He found work in Kenya as a journalist and set up the\u00a0<u>Refugee Youth Education Hub<\/u>, a refugee-led organization that has opened three libraries in the camps \u2013 stocked with donated books \u2013 and expanded learning opportunities for tens of thousands of displaced children and youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe win is not for me alone,\u201d said Mire, 36. \u201cIt is for all the volunteers I work with\u2026 It is for the children in the schools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Several regional winners will also be honoured this year: let us briefly mention. \u2022\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Elizabeth Moreno Barco<\/strong>\u00a0(Americas),\u00a0a human rights defender who advocates for communities affected by armed internal conflict in Colombia;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Asia Al-Mashreqi<\/strong>\u00a0(Middle East &amp; North Africa),\u00a0founder and chairperson of the Sustainable Development Foundation, which has assisted nearly 2 million individuals in Yemen affected by conflict;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Abdullah Habib, Sahat Zia Hero, Salim Khan and Shahida Win<\/strong>\u00a0(Asia-Pacific),\u00a0four Rohingya storytellers documenting the experiences of stateless Rohingya refugees; and<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Lena Grochowska and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Grochowski<\/strong>\u00a0(Europe),\u00a0a Polish couple whose hotel chain and foundation provide shelter and training to refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Geneva on 13 December at the\u00a0Global Refugee Forum 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Nansen Award Winner is Abdullahi Mire a former refugee, who was resettled in Norway Today in the United\u00a0Nations\u00a0press briefing, the\u00a0Office of the\u00a0High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR) announced that Abdullahi Mire \u2013 a former refugee and journalist who has championed the right to education while putting 100,000 books in the hands of refugee children<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=7281\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,548],"tags":[2876,5417,3955,5523,5551],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanitarians","category-international-diplomat","tag-education-2","tag-moreno-barco","tag-norway","tag-refugee","tag-salim-kham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}