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Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Photo: Wikipedia/Wilson Dias) |
Former
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is this year’s winner of the
International Four Freedoms Award. He is to receive the prize for years spent
combating social and economic injustice in Brazil.
The award
will be presented by the Roosevelt Foundation on 12 May in the Nieuwe Kerk (New
Church) in the Dutch town of Middelburg. The awards are presented annually in
New York, London or the Netherlands alternately.
The
foundation called Lula’s long battle against poverty a continuing source of
inspiration for ethnic groups and world leaders. He was a trade union leader
before serving as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
The four
other winners this year are the Arabic news station Al-Jazeera for freedom of
speech, Turkey’s Archbishop Bartholomew for freedom of worship, Indian activist
Ela Ramesh Bhatt for freedom from want and Iraqi Energy Minister Hussain
al-Shahristani for freedom from fear.
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