The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award honours individuals, groups and organizations who go above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, displaced and stateless people. Established in 1954, the Award celebrates the legacy of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian scientist, polar explorer, diplomat and first High Commissioner for Refugees for the League of Nations.
Azizbek Ashurov, a human rights lawyer and the Executive Director of the NGO Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders (FVLWB) in the Kyrgyz Republic is the 2019 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award. He has spent the last 16 years helping people obtain Kyrgyz citizenship in and around the Ferghana Valley region of Kyrgyzstan and is widely credited with helping the country become the first in the world to end statelessness in 2019.
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