In order to maintain the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt alive, the Roosevelt Flinch honors senior realm who feature demonstrated a abiding dependability to these ethics every court. The significant ceremonies that sort the awarding of the Four Freedoms medals are rational alternately in Hyde Usual, New York and Middelburg, the Netherlands, everyplace the Roosevelt Stichting, a special opening, is legally responsible for organising the haughtiness in the even-numbered living.
Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ideology, from the outline of Middelburg, roundabouts the Belgian layer.
Her Greatness Queen Beatrix and Prime-minister Discoloration Rutte purpose to be present at the Four Freedoms Awards haughtiness on May 12, 2012, 11.00 a.m. in the Nieuwe Kerk in Middelburg.
The agree with are set up metaphors of the accomplishments of each laureate; pronounced biographies for each are associated.
Freedom OF Admiration Give His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is swallow for his impressive pains on behalf of dutiful area and his dedication to a communication of reconciliation in the middle of Christians, Muslims and Jews, which he started together with His All Religious studies Pope John Paul II. Bartholomew's existence dependability to luggage compartment basic dutiful area, not morally for the populace in his spontaneous Bomb, but anyway for the peoples of soul and Eastern Europe, has acknowledged him as one of the senior statistics on the international company display who is only this minute fanatical to the meaning and action of the Four Freedoms. Patriarch Bartholomew I, anyway convinced as the "green Patriarch" gained transnational evaluate for his pains for the setting. See: www.patriarchate.org
International FOUR FREEDOMS AWARDLuiz In'acio Lula da Silva, Association organize and President of Brazil from 2003-2010, is admired for his impressive work on behalf of the populace of Brazil. Lula has demonstrated a abiding dependability to companionable and pecuniary legality and worked to help bolster a weather conditions of peace and reconciliation in the middle of the nations of the world. Lula's embankment from abject must to the Executive of Brazil, and his long for to rid Brazil of the far above the ground must and companionable prejudice that for too longing has inundated the less so of his countrymen, has been an flare to the world community.
Freedom OF Discourse AND Express MEDALAl Jazeera receives the join for its responsible dependability to area of the press and its longstanding pains to surrender take apart, adequate statistics for an international company hall and to trace a exclaim to a distinction of perspectives from under-reported regions. Al Jazeera's dedication to this greatest means possible right--the convulsion to the free express and reportage of issues and ideas--exemplifies the meaning and action of the Four Freedoms.
Al Jazeera Satellite Manual started on November 1, 1996 whilst the BBC blocked down its Arabian television boundary marker. Al Jazeera English started infrastructure in 2006. Through its 15-year core Al Jazeera's lobby feature met resistance; not frightened by passionate despair, fair trials, or death coercion, they trip writing the world statistics with strand. H.E. Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani apparition carry the join on behalf of Al Jazeera.
Freedom FROM Challenge MEDALEla Ramesh Bhatt is swallow for her impressive pains on behalf of some of the poorest and greatest beleaguered women in India. Bhatt's utter long for and existence dependability to luggage compartment that greatest basic of possible responsibility for --freedom from want-- which led her, the "precise revolutionary," to found the Extract Employed Women's Conglomerate (SEWA) and the Accommodating Bank of SEWA. SEWA has located Bhatt at the advance guard of intimates working to help women in India improve themselves out of must by creating chances for women to be irregular, work under convincing spot and as a result swank trade and industry independance and self-respect.
Freedom FROM Burden MEDALThis year's Freedom from Burden gift is awarded to Hussain al-Shahristani, Commit Central Cleric of Joie de vivre in the Iraqi reign, for his abiding dependability to tolerant ideology, and his impressive pains to help curb his pet nation of Iraq in the sphere of a free, affluent and enduring state. While 11 living protection in Abu Ghraib, for his refusal to convey in accommodate nuclear arms and his involvement in "dutiful activities", al-Shahristani elope via Iran to Canada. Al-Shahristani's dependability to luggage compartment basic following and dutiful freedoms for all Iraqis under the flow of law, has not morally endeared him to his fellow countrymen, but has anyway earned him the evaluate of the international company community.
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HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW
His All-Holiness BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople, the New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch is the 270th beneficiary of the 2,000 year-old Christian Clerical founded by St. Andrew the Apostle, which he serves having the status of 1991, and the spiritual leader of bigger 250 million end transnational. As a native of Bomb, Patriarch Bartholomew's personal experience provides him a discrete pitch on the continual communication in the middle of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish worlds. He has worked to advance reconciliation in the middle of Catholic, Muslim and Directly communities in basic Yugoslavia and has been faithful of peace-building dealings to separate worldwide suit in the Balkans and the Middle East.
His All-Holiness has worked to advance reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Clerical, the Anglican Communion and other confessions address theological communication, so anyway present on the Endorsed and Important Committees and Faith and Express Glasses case of the Nature Executive committee of Churches. He anyway presided bigger the tragic renaissance of the Autocephalous Clerical of Albania and the Objective Clerical of Estonia, so supply spiritual back up to many traditional Directly countries hopeful from decades of wide-scale dutiful nuisance sad the Level Mask. He has co-sponsored international company peace conferences, as well as meetings on racism and fundamentalism, bringing together Christians, Muslims and Jews for the usage of generating tubby corroboration and join understanding.
As the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew occupies the Firstly Throne of the Directly Christian Clerical, presiding in a fraternal spirit in the middle of Directly Primates. The Ecumenical Patriarch has the elapsed and theological odd job of initiating and coordinating activities in the middle of the Churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Albania, the Czech Asset and Slovakia, Finland, Estonia, and visit archdioceses in the old and new worlds.
This includes the convening of councils or meetings, facilitating inter-church and inter-faith dialogues and present as the key spur and spokeswoman of Directly Clerical unity. As Ecumenical Patriarch he transcends every at your house and ancestral group on a worldwide level and has on five occasions convened the leaders of all ruler Directly Churches rudely the planet, contrary them vigorously to pursue solutions to the challenges of the new millennium, for sample, by tediously condemning patriotism and intensity.
From 1994-1998, he organized five raw summer seminars at Halki on Stanch Training (1994), Conscience (1995), Communications (1996), Fairness (1997), and Hardship (1998). From 1995-2009, he convened eight international company, inter-disciplinary, and inter-religious symposia, bringing together scientists, environmentalists, policy-makers and dutiful leaders and talent world nursing to the disgrace of the Aegean Sea, Black Sea, Danube Put up with, Adriatic Sea, Baltic Sea, Amazon Put up with, Wintry Oceanic, and Mississippi Put up with, thereby earning description "Clean Patriarch" and party such raw awards as the Chocolate box Hudson Vision Praise (2000) and the international company Sophie Title (2002).
His pains to ram dutiful area and possible responsibility for, his initiatives to advance dutiful absolution in the middle of the world's religions, together with his work en route for international company peace and raw protection feature in all honesty located him at the advance guard of worldwide visionaries as an apostle of love, peace and reconciliation. In 1997, he was awarded the Gold bars Give of the Associated States League. His English-language publications include:
"Encountering the Perfect", Doubleday 2008"In the Nature, Yet Not of the Nature", Fordham 2009"Homily the Greatness in Adulation", Fordham 2010"On Soil as in Heaven", Fordham 2011
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