Sister Rosita Milesi, Seventy nine, is a member of the Catholic uncover of the Scalabrini nuns, who are significant for their carrier to refugees worldwide. Her oldsters were black farmers from an Italian background in southern Brazil, and he or she became a nun at 19
Reuters
09 October, 2024, 01:00 pm
Closing modified: 09 October, 2024, 01:05 pm
A Brazilian nun who has helped refugees and migrants for 40 years on Wednesday obtained the Nansen prize awarded yearly by the UN High Price for Refugees for significant work to present protection to internally displaced and stateless folks.
Sister Rosita Milesi, Seventy nine, is a member of the Catholic uncover of the Scalabrini nuns, who are significant for their carrier to refugees worldwide. Her oldsters were black farmers from an Italian background in southern Brazil, and he or she became a nun at 19.
As a lawyer, social worker and activist, Milesi championed the rights and dignity of refugees and migrants of assorted nationalities in Brazil for four decades.
The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award turned into established in 1954 in honour of Norwegian humanitarian, scientist, explorer, and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen. UNHCR presented the award in Geneva.
Milesi joins a prolonged list of significant world laureates, including broken-down US first girl Eleanor Roosevelt, the first particular person to gain the award when it turned into disclose up in 1954, the charity Médecins Sans Frontières (Medical doctors Without Borders) and Germany’s broken-down chancellor Angela Merkel.
She is the 2d Brazilian to gain the award. Ancient Sao Paulo Archbishop Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns obtained the prize in 1985.
Milesi leads the Migration and Human Rights Institute (IMDH) in Brasilia, accurate by which she has helped hundreds of forced migrants and displaced folks obtain entry to compulsory companies and products similar to refuge, healthcare, schooling and correct assistance.
She coordinates RedeMIR, a national community of 60 organisations that operates one day of Brazil, including in faraway border areas, to toughen refugees and migrants.
Her work has had a valuable affect on Brazil’s correct panorama, including the shaping of its 1997 refugee legislation and the 2017 migration legislation, which enshrined serious protections for displaced folks and reduced the chance of statelessness, UNHCR stated in a press release.
