List of awards and honours received by Aung San Suu Kyi
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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 However, since the start of the Rohingya genocide in 2016, many of these honours and awards have been revoked due to her perceived inaction to stop the crisis.[1]
Currently held
Orders, decorations and medals
- Foreign
Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - Civil Division (24 May 1996).[2]
Presidential Medal of Freedom (6 December 2000)[3]
Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (21 January 2012)[4]
Sultan of Brunei Golden Jubilee Medal (6 October 2017)
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Other distinctions
Nobel Peace Prize (14 October 1991)[5]
Olof Palme Prize (2005)
Congressional Gold Medal (6 May 2008)[6]
Chatham House Prize (2011)[7]- The Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan (2011) [8]
- 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)[9]
Scholastic
- University Degrees
| Location | Date | School | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|
 England | 1967 | St. Hugh's College, Oxford | Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy, politics and economics |
| England | 1988 | SOAS, University of London | Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Burmese literature candidate |
- Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector, and fellowships
| Location | Date | School | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
 Japan | 1985 – 1986 | Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University | Visiting scholar [3] |
 India | February 1987 – February 1989 | Indian Institute of Advanced Study | Fellow [10] |
| England | 1990 – | St Hugh's College, Oxford | Honorary Fellow [11] |
| England | 1991 – 9 November 2017 | LSE Students' Union | Honorary President [12] |
| England | 2009 – | Liverpool John Moores University | Honorary Fellow [13] |
 Connecticut | 2012 – 2013 | Timothy Dwight College at Yale University | Chubb Fellow[14] |
| Japan | 15 April 2013 – | Kyoto University | Honorary Fellow [15] |
| England | – | St Antony's College, Oxford | Honorary Fellow [16] |
Honorary degrees
- Honorary degrees
Memberships and fellowships
| Country | Date | Organisation | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
 Scotland | 10 February 2015 – | Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh | Honorary Fellow [37] |
Freedom of the City
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,[40] 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.[41]
Distinctions of societies and associations
Sakharov Prize (1990), rescinded on 10 September 2020[42][43]
Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award (2009), rescinded on 11 November 2018[1][44]- The Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2012), rescinded on 6 March 2018.[45]
Honorary degrees
Ontario Queen's University Doctor of Laws (LL.D; awarded 1995, revoked 30 November 2018)[46][47]- Ontario Carleton University Doctor of Laws (LL.D; awarded 2011, revoked 19 October 2018)[48][49]
Memberships and fellowships
Freedoms of cities
- 1997: Oxford (Revoked on 27 November 2017)[51]
1 November 1999: Dublin (Revoked on 13 December 2017)[52]
2004: Paris (Revoked on 13 December 2018)
2005: Edinburgh (Revoked on 23 August 2018)[53]- 2005: Galway (Galway City Council revoked Freedom on 11 February 2019)[54][55]
- 2005: Sheffield (Revoked in November 2017)[56]
- 2008: Dundee (Revoked in September 2018)[57]
- 2009: Glasgow (Revoked on 3 November 2017)
- 18 June 2011: Newcastle (Revoked in August 2018)[58]
- May 2017: London (Revoked on 5 March 2020)[59]
