Canada Wins U.N. Medal for Assistance to Refugees
From Reuters
OTTAWA —
The Nansen Medal, the United Nations’ highest recognition for aid to refugees, was presented to Canada on Friday, the first time the honor has gone to a nation rather than an individual.
Although no event was singled out for the award, Canada allowed 155 Tamils from strife-torn Sri Lanka to stay after they were abandoned three months ago by a ship in the Atlantic Ocean and rescued from their lifeboats off Newfoundland.
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