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 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 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 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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:

• Gold Medal (Elizabeth Neuffer Prize) - Jess Bravin, of the/Wall Street Journal/USA

• 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

Gold Medal      Ishbel Matheson & Dan McMillan, BBC Radio 4 and World Service

                        Rory O’Connor, Globalvision, New York, USA

                        Nara Ferreira, Radio Senado, Brasilia, Brazil

Gold Medal      Supara Janchitfah, Bangkok Post, Thailand

Silver Medal     Robert Jansen, O Globo, Brazil

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

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