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.
Recipients YearImageRecipient Nationality 1995 Alfredo Cristiani El Salvador 1995 Miguel Obando y Bravo Nicaragua 1996 Colin Powell United States 1997 Ronald Reagan United States 1998 Robert J. Dole United States 1999 Aung San Suu Kyi Burma 1999 Natan Sharansky Israel 2001 Richard B. Cheney United States 2001 Lynne Cheney United States 2003 Bill Frist United States 2003 Hamid Karzai Afghanistan 2004 Condoleezza Rice United States 2004 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, posthumously United Nations 2005 George W. Bush United States 2005 Pope John Paul II, posthumously Roman Catholic Church 2006 Laura Bush United States 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia 2007 Elías Antonio Saca González El Salvador 2009 Henry A. Kissinger United States 2010 George P. Shultz United States 2011 James A. Baker III United States 2011 Lawrence Eagleburger, posthumously United States 2014 George H. W. Bush United States 2014 Ukrainian Maidan Movement Ukraine 2015 John Boehner United States 2015 Mo Ibrahim Sudan 2015 Boris Nemtsov, posthumously Russia
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External links IRI Freedom Award at International Republican Institute