Global Citizen Millenium Awards
Making Community Work:
A Lifetime of Local and Global Public Service
About The Award
The Global Citizen Award
is presented to an outstanding individual who transcends national boundaries; works tirelessly for all peoples and their universal human rights; focuses the world's attention on pressing human and social conditions by being a moral witness to the process of peace and reconciliation. The award recipient embodies the leadership, responsibility and promise of global citizenship.
Recipients
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2001 J. JOSEPH MOAKLEY, Congressman
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2000 GEORGE MITCHELL, Senator
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1999 JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
chair, Global Citizens Circle International Advisory Board, professor emeritus, Harvard University
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1998 CORETTA SCOTT KING
founding president, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
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1997 GRAÇA MACHEL
chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa; first lady, Mozambique, South Africa
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1996 OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ
former president of Costa Rica; Nobel peace laureate; founder, Center for Peace and Reconciliation
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1995 NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA
president of the Republic of South Africa
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1994 BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI
secretary-general, United Nations