{"id":343713,"date":"2025-07-30T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343713"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:26:37","slug":"un-nelson-mandela-prize-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-nelson-mandela-prize-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Nelson Mandela Prize\u00a02025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, Dr. Kennedy Odede, Founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) has been awarded the 2025 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nelson Mandela Prize 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The United Nations Nelson Mandela Prize was established by General Assembly Resolution on 6 June 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The Prize is awarded <strong>once every five years<\/strong>, beginning in 2015, with subsequent awards in 2020 and 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The Prize recognises <strong>two individuals\u2014one female and one male,<\/strong> who must be selected from <strong>different geographic regions to ensure global representation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Prize honours individuals who have dedicated their lives to advancing reconciliation, social cohesion<strong>,<\/strong> and community development in line with UN principles.<\/li>\n<li>Winners receive a plaque with a citation and Mandela quote\u2014no cash award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Current staff members of any UN organisation are not eligible to receive the Prize.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Prize is formally presented by the UN Secretary-General during the General Assembly\u2019s commemoration of Nelson Mandela International Day on 18 July at UN Headquarters.<\/li>\n<li>No Indian has received the award yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, Dr. Kennedy Odede, Founder and CEO of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) has been awarded the 2025 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize by the United Nations. About Nelson Mandela Prize 2025 The United Nations Nelson Mandela Prize was established by General Assembly Resolution on 6 June 2014. The Prize is awarded once every five&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-nelson-mandela-prize-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN Nelson Mandela Prize\u00a02025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,7965],"tags":[11872,12134],"class_list":["post-343713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-kenya-un-org","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}