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"The tragedy, you are experiencing now, is affecting all of us - those to whom close were the values Laura Pollan believed in" - writes Lech Walesa in his letter to Hector Maseda, the husband of ...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is this year's laureate of the Lech Walesa Award. The former president of Brazil will be awarded the prize in recognition of his efforts to achieve peaceful coope...

On June 19, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy and a symbol of the Burmese opposition movement, turned 66. It has become a tradition that her birthday is marked by publi...

A new edition of the Lech Walesa Award has just been launched. The Lech Walesa Institute accepts nominations until June 30, 2011. The Award's financial equivalent is 100.000 USD. The exclusive partner of the Award is the largest bank of Poland: PKO Bank Polski..

Four men who threw anti-government leaflets in Havana's Revolution Square were sentenced to up to five years in prison by a Cuban court.