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Press Releases Stephen Lewis to be 24th Recipient of UNA Canada's
Pearson Peace Medal
Evocative to Canadians of Lester Pearson, Stephen Lewis has come to represent Canada's international leadership within the United Nations. His achievements in public and international service are great and varied: from early experiences in Africa; as a leader of the New Democratic Party in Ontario; a term as Canada's Ambassador to the UN; service as Deputy Director of UNICEF; to his current assignment as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on HIV/AIDS in Africa. In his present role, Stephen Lewis has moved carefully, but with passion and conviction, to exhort the world's leaders, and the global community - touching the most hardened -- to find the will and the means to defeat the pandemic which is wrecking such havoc, especially in Africa. He and his friends have also served by example through the establishment of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, dedicated to supporting the work against HIV/AIDS by Africans themselves, to cope with this modern scourge. UNA-Canada awards the Pearson Peace Medal annually to a Canadian who
has personally contributed, through his or her working life and voluntary
commitments, to those humanitarian causes to which Lester B. Pearson
devoted his distinguished career. The Medal was first awarded in 1979
to Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger. Recent recipients include Alex Morrison
(2002), Ursula Franklin (2001), Flora Macdonald (1999), Pat Roy Mooney
(1998) Hanna Newcombe (1997) and Gerry Barr (1996). A jury of eminent
Canadians selects the recipient of the Medal.
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