Honours of Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi has received numerous honours and awards throughout her life for her peace and freedom activism in Myanmar. However, since the start of the Rohingya genocide in 2016, many of these honours have been revoked due to her perceived inaction to stop the crisis.[1]

Honorary citizen

• She was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship in 2007. Due to human rights concerns over the Rohingya both houses of the Parliament of Canada voted unanimously to revoke the honour; the House of Commons of Canada voted unanimously to revoke her honorary citizenship on 27 September 2018,[2] and the Senate of Canada did the same on 2 October 2018.[3] She is the first recipient of honorary Canadian citizenship to have the honour withdrawn.

Orders, decorations and medals

Foreign

• Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - Civil Division (24 May 1996).[4]
• Presidential Medal of Freedom (6 December 2000)[5]

Other distinctions

• Sakharov Prize (1990)[6]
• Nobel Peace Prize (14 October 1991)[7]
• Olof Palme Prize (2005)
• Congressional Gold Medal (6 May 2008)[8]
• Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award (2009), rescinded on 11 November 2018[1][9]
• Chatham House Prize (2011)[10]
• The Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan (2011) [11]
• The Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2012), rescinded on 6 March 2018.[12]

Scholastic

University Degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree
England	1967	St. Hugh's College, Oxford	Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy, politics and economics
England	1988	SOAS, University of London	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Burmese literature candidate

Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector, and fellowships

Location	Date	School	Position
Japan	1985 – 1986	Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University	Visiting scholar [5]
India	February 1987 – February 1989	Indian Institute of Advanced Study	Fellow [13]
England	1990 –	St Hugh's College, Oxford	Honorary Fellow [14]
England	1991 – 9 November 2017	LSE Students' Union	Honorary President [15]
England	2009 –	Liverpool John Moores University	Honorary Fellow [16]
Connecticut	2012 – 2013	Timothy Dwight College at Yale University	Chubb Fellow [17]
Japan	15 April 2013 –	Kyoto University	Honorary Fellow [18]
England	–	St Antony's College, Oxford	Honorary Fellow [19]

Honorary degrees

Honorary degrees

Location	Date	School	Degree	Status
Ontario	November 1993	University of Toronto	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [20]
Ontario	1995	Queen's University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [21]	Revoked 30 November 2018 [22]
District of Columbia	January 1997	American University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [14]
Czech Republic	10 January 1997	Charles University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [23]
Australia	1997	University of Technology Sydney	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [24]
South Africa	1997	University of Natal	Doctor of Laws (LL.D)
England	1998	University of Bath	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [25]
England	1998	University of Bristol	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [26]
Australia	1998	University of Melbourne	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [27]
New Zealand	1999	Victoria University of Wellington	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [28]
Newfoundland and Labrador	May 2004	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [29]
Northern Ireland	2009	Ulster University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [30]
Ontario	2011	Carleton University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [31]	Revoked 19 October 2018 [32]
South Africa	October 2011	University of Johannesburg	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) [33]
Maryland	2012	Johns Hopkins University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [34]
Hong Kong	15 March 2012	University of Hong Kong	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [35]
Republic of Ireland	18 June 2012	Trinity College Dublin	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [36]
England	20 June 2012	University of Oxford	Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) [37]
California	September 2012	University of San Francisco	Doctorate [38]
Australia	27 November 2013	University of Sydney	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [39]
Australia	30 November 2013	Monash University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D) [40]
Australia	2013	Australian National University	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [41]
Taiwan	12 December 2015	National Chiao Tung University	Doctorate [42]
Japan	3 November 2016	Kyoto University	Doctorate [43]

Memberships and fellowships

Country	Date	Organisation	Position
Scotland	10 February 2015 –	Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh	Honorary Fellow [44]
United Kingdom	–	UNISON	Honorary Member [45] Suspended on 20 September 2017

Freedom of the City

• 1994: Rome (Collected on 27 October 2013) [46]
• 1997: Oxford (Revoked on 27 November 2017) [47]
• 1 November 1999: Dublin (Revoked on 13 December 2017) [48]
• 2004: Paris (Revoked on 13 December 2018)
• 2005: Edinburgh (Revoked on 23 August 2018) [49]
• 2005: Galway (Galway City Council revoked Freedom on 11 February 2019) [50] [51]
• 2005: Sheffield (Revoked in November 2017) [52]
• 2008: Dundee (Revoked in September 2018) [53]
• 2009: Glasgow (Revoked on 3 November 2017)
• 13 May 2011: Brighton and Hove [54]
• 18 June 2011: Newcastle (Revoked in August 2018) [55]
• May 2017: London (The City of London Corporation's Court of Common Council voted to Revoke on 5 March 2020) [56] [57] [58]

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