Nansen passport
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Nansen passports are internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees. Designed in 1922 by Fridtjof Nansen, in 1942 they were honored by governments in 52 countries. Approximately 450,000 Nansen passports were issued, helping hundreds of thousands of stateless people to immigrate to a country that would have them. The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passports.
The Nansen passport was developed after the Russian Revolution, when 1.4 million Russians escaped Russia in fear of the Communist government. Hundreds of thousands of them stayed permanently abroad.
It was a great success, one of the few that could be attributed to the League of Nations.
1901: Dunant, Passy
02: Ducommun, Gobat
03: Cremer
04: IDI
05: Suttner
06: Roosevelt
07: Moneta, Renault
08: Arnoldson, Bajer
09: Beernaert, Estournelles de Constant
10: IPB
11: Asser, Fried
12: Root
13: La Fontaine
17: ICRC
19: Wilson
20: Bourgeois
21: Branting, Lange
22: Nansen
25: Chamberlain, Dawes
26: Briand &Stresemann
27: Buisson, Quidde
29: Kellogg
30: Söderblom
31: Addams, Butler
33: Angell
34: Henderson
35: Ossietzky
36: Lamas
37: Cecil
38: Nansen Office
44: ICRC
45: Hull
46: Balch, Mott
47: QPSW, AFSC
49: Boyd Orr
50: Bunche
51: Jouhaux
52: Schweitzer
53: Marshall
54: UNHRC
57: Pearson
58: Pire
59: Noel‑Baker
60: Lutuli
61: Hammarskjöld
62: Pauling
63: Red Cross
64: King
65: UNICEF
68: Cassin
69: ILO
70: Borlaug
71: Brandt
73: Kissinger, Le
74: MacBride, Sato
75: Sakharov
76: B.Williams, Corrigan
77: AI
78: Sadat, Begin
79: Mother Teresa
80: Esquivel
81: UNHRC
82: Myrdal, García Robles
83: Wałęsa
84: Tutu
85: IPPNW
86: Wiesel
87: Arias
88: UN Peacekeeping
89: Dalai Lama
90: Gorbachev
91: Suu Kyi
92: Menchú
93: Mandela, de Klerk
94: Arafat, Peres, Rabin
95: Pugwash Conferences, Rotblat
96: Belo, Ramos Horta
97: ICBL, J.Williams
98: Hume, Trimble
99: MSF
2000: Kim
01: UN, Annan
02: Carter
03: Ebadi
04: Maathai
05: IAEA, ElBaradei
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