Aung San Suu Kyi has received numerous honours and awards, including the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, throughout her life for her peace and freedom activism in her homeland of Myanmar. However, since the start of the Rohingya genocide in 2016, many of these honours and awards have been revoked due to her perceived inaction to stop the crisis.
Currently held
Orders, decorations and medals Foreign Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - Civil Division (24 May 1996). Presidential Medal of Freedom (6 December 2000) Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (21 January 2012) Sultan of Brunei Golden Jubilee Medal (6 October 2017)
Other distinctions Nobel Peace Prize (14 October 1991) Olof Palme Prize (2005) Congressional Gold Medal (6 May 2008) Chatham House Prize (2011) The Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan (2011) In 2019, Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Aung San Suu Kyi for 1990 (2019)
Scholastic University Degrees
Location Date School Degree 1967 St. Hugh's College, Oxford Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy, politics and economics 1988 SOAS, University of London Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Burmese literature candidate
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector, and fellowships
Location Date School Position 19851986 Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University Visiting scholar February 1987February 1989 Indian Institute of Advanced Study Fellow 1990 St Hugh's College, Oxford Honorary Fellow 19919 November 2017 LSE Students' Union Honorary President 2009 Liverpool John Moores University Honorary Fellow 20122013 Timothy Dwight College at Yale University Chubb Fellow 15 April 2013 Kyoto University Honorary Fellow St Antony's College, Oxford Honorary Fellow
Honorary degrees
Honorary degrees
Location Date School Degree Status November 1993 University of Toronto Doctor of Laws (LL.D) January 1997 American University Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 10 January 1997 Charles University Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 1997 University of Technology Sydney Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) 1997 University of Natal Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 1998 University of Bath Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 1998 University of Bristol Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 1998 University of Melbourne Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 1999 Victoria University of Wellington Doctor of Laws (LL.D) May 2004 Memorial University of Newfoundland Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 2009 Ulster University Doctor of Laws (LL.D) October 2011 University of Johannesburg Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) 2012 Johns Hopkins University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) 15 March 2012 University of Hong Kong Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 18 June 2012 Trinity College Dublin Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 20 June 2012 University of Oxford Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) September 2012 University of San Francisco Doctorate 27 November 2013 University of Sydney Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 30 November 2013 Monash University Doctor of Laws (LL.D) 2013 Australian National University Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) 12 December 2015 National Chiao Tung University Doctorate 3 November 2016 Kyoto University Doctorate
Memberships and fellowships Country Date Organisation Position 10 February 2015 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Honorary Fellow
Freedom of the City 1994: Rome (Collected on 27 October 2013) 13 May 2011: Brighton and Hove
Revoked or status otherwise withdrawn Honorary citizenship Honorary Canadian citizenship (awarded 2007, due to concerns over the Rohingya genocide, revoked 27 September 2018 by unanimous vote of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada, with the unanimous concurrence of the Senate of Canada on 2 October 2018). She is the first recipient of honorary Canadian citizenship to have the honour withdrawn.
Distinctions of societies and associations Sakharov Prize (1990), rescinded on 10 September 2020 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award (2009), rescinded on 11 November 2018 The Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2012), rescinded on 6 March 2018.
Honorary degrees Queen's University Doctor of Laws (LL.D; awarded 1995, revoked 30 November 2018) Carleton University Doctor of Laws (LL.D; awarded 2011, revoked 19 October 2018)
Memberships and fellowships Hony. Member of UNISON (suspended 20 September 2017)
Freedoms of cities 1997: Oxford (Revoked on 27 November 2017) 1 November 1999: Dublin (Revoked on 13 December 2017) 2004: Paris (Revoked on 13 December 2018) 2005: Edinburgh (Revoked on 23 August 2018) 2005: Galway (Galway City Council revoked Freedom on 11 February 2019) 2005: Sheffield (Revoked in November 2017) 2008: Dundee (Revoked in September 2018) 2009: Glasgow (Revoked on 3 November 2017) 18 June 2011: Newcastle (Revoked in August 2018) May 2017: London (Revoked on 5 March 2020)
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