The world’s largest annual award for humanitarian organizations goes to the organization based in the United Kingdom for the removal of landmines – at a time when more and more country mines are used
Die Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced today that the Mines Advisory Group – A humanitarian, development policy and peace -promoting organization that focuses on eliminating landmines and reducing armed violence in communities affected by conflicts – was selected as the recipient of Conrad N. Hilton Humanitrian Prize 2025. Since 1989, the Mines Advisory Group has helped more than 23 million people in over 70 countries to rebuild its life after a war, and it has played a leading role in the international efforts to prevent the use of landmines.
The Mines Advisory Group was selected using the same procedure, which has also determined the price for three decades. The Hilton Foundation checks the nomination proposals from non -profit organizations from all over the world, and an independent, international committee of respected judges makes the final selection according to a strict test procedure. The following people were members of the Jury of the Hilton Prize for Humanitarian Aid 2025: The Right Honorable Helen Clark; Leymah Gbowee; Conrad N. Hilton III; Sister Joyce Meyer; Her Majesty Queen Noor; Kennedy Odede; Zainab Salbi; and Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.
“The selection of the Mines Advisory Group as this year’s recipient of the Hilton Prize for Humanitarian Aid reminds us that sympathy and peace should still be at the top of our global agenda”, ” said Peter Laugharn, President and CEO of Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. “Through their extraordinary efforts to help communities again according to conflicts to security and prosperity, the Mines Advisory Group is an example of the kind of humanitarian excellence that should characterize and inspire our price in the past three decades.”
In times of increasing geopolitical conflicts and humanitarian needs, the need to support non -profit organizations on the front is greater than ever. With this year’s prize, the Mines Advisory Group is therefore honored for its work, which deals with the permanent and devastating effects of land mines, not an effect on fighter and armed violence on human life and development according to conflicts. In 2023, more than 8 out of 10 country mining victims were civilians, and more than a third of civilian victims were children.
“It has been determined for 35 years to react to the urgent needs of people in the municipalities devastated by conflicts and to places that have to struggle with the legacies of the conflicts long after the war”, ” Darren Cormack, Managing Director of Mines Advisory Group said. “We feel honored to preserve the Hilton Humanitarian Prize in recognition of the tireless and courageous work of our global employees.”
The vast majority of the organization’s 5,500 employees come from municipalities that are directly affected by conflicts. In 1997 the non -profit organization of the Nobel Peace Prize for her founding role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was founded by the groundbreak, was Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC).
As the largest annual humanitarian award for non -profit organizations, the price throws a light on exceptional organizations that are innovative, stand up for changes and bring them up to improve the life of disadvantaged people all over the world. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the prize, the not earmarked is increased from $ 2.5 to $ 3 million.
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