Angela Merkel will receive the UN refugee agency's top award for her efforts to accept more than 1 million refugees and asylum seekers during her time in office.
Merkel's decision to welcome more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers — primarily from Syria — in 2015 and 2016 and her efforts to expand Germany's resettlement program.of the far-right Alternative for Germany .
The award selection committee said it was recognizing Merkel's "leadership, courage and compassion in ensuring the protection of hundreds of thousands of desperate people," per a press release.By helping more than a million refugees to survive and rebuild, Angela Merkel displayed great moral and political courage,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in the press release.
“It was true leadership, appealing to our common humanity, standing firm against those who preached fear and discrimination," he added. "She showed what can be achieved when politicians take the right course of action and work to find solutions to the world’s challenges rather than simply shift responsibility to others.”
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