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Announcing Our Next Annual Awards and Dinner Dance to be held: Friday December 7, 2007
Our next annual Awards and Dinner Dance will be to honor the winners of the UNCA Prizes for Best Media Coverage of the United Nations and UNCA Ranan Lurie Prizes for best political cartoons reflecting the UN spirit.
The dinner will take place in the UN Delegates Dining Room with the presence of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassadors from UN member states, corporate leaders, celebrities and international media representatives.
Printed invitations to the UNCA annual dinner on Dec. 7 are now available in the club, room 326. For those not working daily at UN headquarters, you can email if you want to attend the dinner at
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Cost will be $100 each for an UNCA member and a guest. Please make check payable to UNCA Awards Committee.
If you know of any corporations, businesses, groups, or individuals who would like to reserve a table, aquire special seating, advertise in the program brochure, and/or support the event in any other way please click the following Link:  Awards Dinner Special Packages Reservation Form to download, print, and fill out the PDF Reservation Form, which also contains details about all of the avalable packages and advertising options...
For more information, please contact Ilona Kolesnichenko:
Tel: 212-963-7137. or
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Previous Years Winners
NOTE: The following article is currently being edited and will be become part of an "Awards" Section containing seporate articles for each years awards...
2006 UNCA Awards
Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for Print Journalism - including Online Media Sponsored by the Boston Globe and UNCA:
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Gold Medal (Elizabeth Neuffer Prize) - Jess Bravin, of the/Wall Street Journal/USA
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Silver Medal (Elizabeth Neuffer Prize) - George Jahn of/Associated Press/USA
Silver Medal, Elizabeth Neuffer Prize 2006
William Varner, of/Bloomberg News/USA
The UN Foundation Prize for Reporting on Humanitarian and Development Affairs
Gold Medal, The UN Foundation Prize
Richard Kavuma, of the/Weekly Observer/Uganda
Gold Medal, The UN Foundation Prize
Godwin Nnanna of/Business Day/Nigeria
The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Sponsored by Antena 3 TV, Spain
Gold Medal, Dan Mc Millan, BBC News of African Service, UK
Silver Medal, Greg Wilesmith, The/Foreign Correspondent/Team, ABC, Australia
President Bill Clinton, UNCA Citizen of the World Award and UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery
Past Winners 2005
Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for Print Journalism, including Online Media Joint Gold Medal
Mohamad Brazzi, Newsday, New York
Dafna Linzer, The Washington Post, Washington DC, USA
Silver Medal
Siddarth Varadajaran, The Hindu, New Delhi, India
The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Gold Medal Ishbel Matheson & Dan McMillan, BBC Radio 4 and World Service
Joint Silver Medal
Rory O’Connor, Globalvision, New York, USA
Nara Ferreira, Radio Senado, Brasilia, Brazil
The UN Foundation Prize for Reporting on Humanitarian and Development Affairs
Gold Medal Supara Janchitfah, Bangkok Post, Thailand
Silver Medal Robert Jansen, O Globo, Brazil
Sergio Viera de Mello, UNCA Citizen of the World Award
The UNCA 2006RANAN LURIE Political Cartoon Awards
First Prize - $ 10,000: Alfredo Sabat, La Nacion, Argentina
Second Prize - $ 5,000: Jean Plantureux, Le Monde, France
Third Prize - $ 3,000: David Pope, The Sun-Herald, Australia
The UNCA 2006 RANAN LURIE Political Cartoon
Citations for Excellence
Graeme MacKay
The Hamilton Spectator
(Canada)
Dalcio S. De. Oliverira
Machado
Correio Popular
(Brazil)
Jeff Stahler
Columbus Dispatch
(USA)
Jean Carlos Galvao
Folha De. S. Paulo
(Brazil)
Clay Bennett
The Christian Science Monitor
(USA)
Steve Greenberg
Ventura County Star
(USA)
Michael Kountouris
Galera Magazine
(Greece)
Tom Stiglich
USA Today
(USA)
Andrew Wahl
The Wenatchee World
(USA)
Hou Xiao Qiang
Cartoon Weekly
(China)
To see the winning cartoons and their creators, you are kindly invited to look at
www.LaurieUNaward.com
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