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]

Freedom Award
Awarded for	"individuals who have worked to advance freedom and democracy in their countries and around the world"[1]
Country	United States
Presented by	International Republican Institute
First awarded	1995
Last awarded	2015
Website	http://www.iri.org/program/freedom-award

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.
2. "Freedom Award Honorees".