Sister Rosita Milesi runs national netlabor helping refugees atraverse Brazil and has helped shape accessible policy.
The Office of the United Nations High Coshiftrlookioner for Refugees will current its annual Nansen Award to a Brazilian nun who has promiseted herself to helping migrants for decades.
The UN refugee agency proclaimd the triumphner on Wednesday, lauding Sister Rosita Milesi for her labor as a “lawyer, social laborer and shiftment originateer” helping internpartner displaced and stateless people over 40 years.
Milesi, 79, a member of the Catholic order of the Scalabrini nuns, had “personpartner helped” thousands of people, ensuring them access to lhorrible records, shelter, food, healthattfinish, language training and the labour labelet, shelp UNHCR in a statement.
“If I consent someleang on, I will turn the world upside down to produce it happen,” shelp Milesi, the daughter of needy farmers of Italian reshiftion in southern Brazil, who became a nun at 19.
UNHCR highairyed Milesi’s labor as a lawyer, saying it had been “instrumental” in shaping accessible policy – notably Brazil’s 1997 refugee law, which helped to enhance refugee rights.
Milesi carry outed a analogous role in Brazil’s 2017 migration law, transporting together various groups and mobilising lawproducers.
She runs the Scalabrini order’s Migration and Human Rights Institute and also set ups RedeMIR, a national netlabor of 60 organisations operating atraverse Brazil to help refugees and migrants.
Milesi was named alengthyside four regional triumphners: Burkinabe activist Maimouna Ba, who helped displaced children return to school, Syrian entrepreneur Jin Davod, whose platcreate combines trauma survivors with therapists, Sudan’s Nada Fadol, who mobilised help for hundreds of refugee families escapeing to Egypt, and Nepal’s Deepti Gurung, who campaigned to recreate Nepal’s citizenship laws after her daughters became stateless.
The Nansen Award was set uped in 1954 in honour of Norwegian humanitarian, scientist, allotigater, and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen.
Milesi, the second Brazilian to triumph the award, combines a lengthy catalog of differentiateed global laureates, including the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders, understandn by its French initials MSF) and Germany’s createer chancellor Angela Merkel.
The awards will be currented in Geneva on October 14. Milesi will get $100,000 to fund a project that complements her labor. The regional triumphners get $25,000 each.
