Indira Gandhi Peace Prize Latest News
Recently, Mozambican rights activist and humanitarian Graca Machel has been selected for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2025.
About Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
- It was instituted in the memory of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by a trust in her name in 1986.
- It is also known as the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development,
- It consists of a monetary award of 25 lakh rupees along with a citation.
- It is awarded annually by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust to a person or organization without any distinction of nationality, race or religion, in recognition of creative efforts towards:
- Promoting international peace and disarmament, racial equality, and goodwill and harmony among nations;
- Securing economic co-operation and promoting a new international economic order;
- Accelerating the all-round advancement of developing nations;
- Ensuring that the discoveries of science and modern knowledge are used for the larger good of the human race; and
- Enlarging the scope of freedom and enriching the human spirit.
Source: TH
Last updated on Sep, 2026
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