The third Dag Hammarskjöld Inspiration Award was presented to Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation and the Better World Fund (site), to honor his visionary leadership in financing and advocating projects on the environment, population, children's health and human rights, among others. Wirth, a former US senator from Colorado, is in charge of the $1 billion pledged by Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, in 1997, to benefit the United Nations. The foundation so serves as a center for companies, individuals and charities who want to work with the world body and penetrate its bureaucracy.
Third Recipient: Timothy Wirth
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About Dag Hammarskjöld
"Our Work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To search for meaning in a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build aworld of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?" --Dag Hammarskjöld |
