Aqeela Asifi, UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Ques: Aqeela Asifi has been awarded the 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. She is a refugee of-

a. Afghanistan
b. Syria
c. Palestine
d. Sri Lanka

Ans: a

Related facts:

September 15, 2015 the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award was announced to be given to Aqeela Asifi.
It is notable that she is an Afghan refugee.
Aqeela Asifi, 49, is being recognized for her brave and tireless dedication to education for Afghan refugee girls in the Kot Chandana refugee village in Mianwali, Pakistan – while herself overcoming the struggles of life in exile.
Asifi is a former teacher who fled from Kabul with her family in 1992, finding safety in the remote refugee settlement of Kot Chandana.
UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award honors extraordinary service to the forcibly displaced.
The award includes a commemorative medal and a US$100,000 monetary prize.
It is notable that the Colombian women’s organization “Butterflies” were given the Nansen Refugee Award 2014.
The awardees were three members of Butterflies, Mery Medina, Gloria Amparo and Maritza Asprilla Cruz.
Asifi will receive the award at a ceremony in Geneva on October 5, hosted by UNHCR, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Swiss and Norwegian authorities.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly.
UNHCR safeguards the rights and well-being of refugees and stateless people.

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