The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded by:
- A.The European Parliament
- B.The United Nations General Assembly
- C.UNESCO
- D.The Russian Academy of Sciences
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The correct answer is A, the European Parliament, which instituted the prize in 1988 and awards it each year to individuals or organisations defending human rights and freedom of thought. It is named after Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet nuclear physicist who became a campaigner for civil liberties and himself won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Option B is wrong because the General Assembly declares observances and adopts resolutions but gives no such prize. Option C is wrong because UNESCO gives the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize, instituted in 1989, which is a different award. Option D is wrong because the Russian Academy of Sciences, of which Sakharov was a member, does not award the prize named after him. Malala Yousafzai received the Sakharov Prize in 2013. Sakharov himself was kept under internal exile in the Soviet Union for years, which is why his name was chosen.
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- A.Stockholm
- B.Oslo
- C.Geneva
- D.Copenhagen
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- A.Henry Dunant
- B.Fridtjof Nansen
- C.Woodrow Wilson
- D.Theodore Roosevelt
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- A.UNICEF
- B.International Committee of the Red Cross
- C.Medecins Sans Frontieres
- D.World Food Programme
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- A.1973
- B.1979
- C.1980
- D.1962
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- A.Malala Yousafzai
- B.Nadia Murad
- C.Abiy Ahmed
- D.Maria Ressa
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