About Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as the general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) since the party's founding in 1988 and was registered as its chairperson while it was a legal party from 2011 to 2023. She played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s. She has been widely described as the de facto leader of Myanmar from 2016 to 2021. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Awards & Honors
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize
Sakharov Prize
Catalonia International Prize
Gwangju Prize for Human Rights
honorary Canadian citizenship
Congressional Gold Medal
UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize
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Rafto Prize
Olof Palme Prize
Freedom Award
International Simón Bolívar Prize
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
Václav Havel Prize
Wallenberg Medal
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
Giuseppe Motta Medal
Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Fear
Chatham House Prize
Silver Medal of the President of the Senate
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Humanitarian of the Year
Global Citizen Awards
honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong
honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
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