# World Peace Council prizes

The World Peace Council (WPC), a pro-Soviet non-governmental organization, has awarded a number of prizes, beginning in 1950. These have been awarded to individuals, organisations, peoples, and places. Typically, several winners would be voted at one WPC congress; these, or their representative, would receive their prize at a later congress, or from a WPC delegation. Extra prizes were awarded in 1959 and 1964, to mark the WPC's 10th and 15th anniversaries.
The awards include:
* International Peace Prize established at the first World Congress of Peace held in April 1949, in Paris. The original 1949 regulations envisaged prizes for art, literature, film, or industrial work which advanced the cause of peace among nations. In 1951, the WPC recategorised three distinct awards:
** International Peace Prize, last awarded in 1957.
** Honorary International Peace Prize, for posthumous award.
** Medal of Peace, renamed in 1959 the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace, in honour of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who led the WPC till his death in 1958. This medal has been awarded in silver, but the highest WPC honour is the gold medal.
* Ho Chi Minh Award, a leadership award established in honour of Ho Chi Minh (not to be confused with the Ho Chi Minh Prizes awarded by the Vietnamese government).
* Amilcar Cabral Award, established in 1973 in honour of Amílcar Cabral, for contributions to "the struggle against imperialism and colonialism". (The Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau governments also award Amilcar Cabral prizes.)
The WPC was allied with the Soviet Union and followed its foreign policy line during the Cold War. Some recipients of its prizes have also won the Lenin Peace Prize, a separate prize awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government.

## List of award winners

| Date | Awardee | Type | Country | Award | Notes | Refs |
| 1950 | Julius Fučík | Person | Czechoslovakia | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous. | |
| 1950 | Pablo Picasso | Person | Spain | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1950 | Pablo Neruda | Person | Chile | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1950 | Paul Robeson | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1950 | Nâzım Hikmet | Person | Turkey | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1950 | Wanda Jakubowska | Person | Poland | International Peace Prize | For her 1948 film Ostatni etap ("The Last Stage") | |
| 1950 | Candido Portinari | Person | Brazil | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Jean-Richard Bloch | Person | France | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Mihail Sadoveanu | Person | Romania | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Renato Guttuso | Person | Italy | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Václav Dobiaš | Person | Czechoslovakia | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Louis Daquin | Person | France | Gold Medal | | |
| 1950 | Al-Tariq | Work | Lebanon | Gold Medal | Journal. | |
| 1950 | Iunost' mira (Юность мира, "Youth of the World") | Work | Soviet Union / Hungary | Gold Medal | Documentary about the 1949 World Youth Festival in Budapest. | |
| 1950 | Warsaw | Place | Poland | Honorary International Peace Prize | An exceptional award to the city as "a symbol of peaceful restoration". | |
| 1953 | Nikola Vaptsarov | Person | Bulgaria | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award. | |
| 1953 | Leopoldo Méndez | Person | Mexico | International Peace Prize | Member of the Comite por la Paz Mexicano | |
| 1953 | Mulk Raj Anand | Person | India | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1953 | W.E.B. Du Bois | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | Won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959. | |
| 1953 | Paul Éluard | Person | France | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1953 | Halldór Laxness | Person | Iceland | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1953 | Martin Hellberg | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For directing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | |
| 1953 | Kurt Stern | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For co-writing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | |
| 1953 | Jeanne Stern | Person | Germany DR | International Peace Prize | For co-writing Das verurteilte Dorf ("The condemned village"). | |
| 1953 | Jean Effel | Person | France | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | Vítězslav Nezval | Person | Czechoslovakia | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | James Aldridge | Person | Australia | Gold Medal | For his novel The Diplomat. | |
| 1953 | Cláudio Santoro | Person | Brazil | Gold Medal | For his orchestral work Canto de Amor e Paz. | |
| 1953 | Maria Rosa Oliver | Person | Argentina | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | Toshiko Akamatsu | Person | Japan | Gold Medal | For Hiroshima panels | |
| 1953 | Iri Maruki | Person | Japan | Gold Medal | For Hiroshima panels | |
| 1953 | Bozorg Alavi | Person | Iran | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | Jean Salandre | Person | France | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | S. Csorvás | Person | Romania | Gold Medal | For sculpture "Korean partisans" | |
| 1953 | Carlos Augusto León | Person | Venezuela | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | Luis Carlos Pérez | Person | Colombia | Gold Medal | | |
| 1953 | Wäinö Aaltonen | Person | Finland | Gold Medal | For statue entitled "Peace". | |
| 1954 | Charlie Chaplin | Person | United Kingdom | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1954 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Person | Soviet Union | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1955 | Béla Bartók | Person | Hungary | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award | |
| 1955 | Édouard Herriot | Person | France | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1955 | Joris Ivens | Person | Netherlands | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1955 | Cesare Zavattini | Person | Italy | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1955 | Josué de Castro | Person | Brazil | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1956 | Irène Joliot-Curie | Person | France | Honorary International Peace Prize | Posthumous award | |
| 1956 | William Howard Melish | Person | United States | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1956 | Qi Baishi | Person | China PR | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1956 | Nikos Kazantzakis | Person | Greece | International Peace Prize | | |
| 1957 | Bertrand Russell | Person | United Kingdom | International Peace Prize | Refused award. | |
| 1957 | Guo Moruo | Person | China PR | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1959 | Manolis Glezos | Person | Greece | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Tristao de Braganza Cunha | Person | Goa | Gold medal | Posthumous award | |
| 1959 | Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation | Organisation | International | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Mouvement de la Paix | Organisation | France | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Czechoslovak Peace Committee | Organisation | Czechoslovakia | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Boris Polevoy | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Zaharia Stancu | Person | Romania | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | George Hanna | Person | Lebanon | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Olga Poblete de Espinosa | Person | Chile | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Eva Sanderson | Person | Canada | Gold medal | | |
| 1959 | Alexei Adzhubei | Person | Soviet Union | silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Yevgeny Zhukov | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Konstantin Fedin | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Trofim Lysenko | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| ? | Aleksandr V. Topchiev | Person | Soviet Union | Silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Katharine Susannah Prichard | Person | Australia | Medal | | |
| 1959 | Igor Kurchatov | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Bill Morrow | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | R. K. Aggarwal | Person | India | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Pyotr Kapitsa | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1959 | Juan Marinello Vidaurreta | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie silver medal | | |
| 1960 | Ferdinando Targetti | Person | Italy | Gold medal | | |
| 1960 | Walter Diehl | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | | |
| 1960 | Edith Höreth-Menge | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | | |
| 1960 | Erwin Eckert | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | | |
| 1960 | Gerhard Wohlrath | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | | |
| 1960 | Gustav Tiefes | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | | |
| 1960 | Johannes Oberhof | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | | |
| 1960 | Erich Kompalla | Person | Germany FR | Jubilee Silver medal | | |
| 1960 | Nikita Khrushchev | Person | Soviet Union | Medal | | |
| 1961 | Ilya Ehrenburg | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | Marking his 70th birthday. | |
| 1961 | Eugénie Cotton | Person | France | Gold medal | Marking her 80th birthday. | |
| 1961 | World Federation of Democratic Youth | Organisation | International | Gold medal | | |
| ? | Political prisoners in Francoist Spain | Persons | Spain | Gold medal | | |
| ? | Nicolai Gribachov | Person | Soviet Union | Grand Silver medal | | |
| ? | Dmitri Skobeltsyn | Person | Soviet Union | Medal | | |
| ? | Lazaro Cardenas | Person | Mexico | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1963 | Manolis Glezos | Person | Greece | Gold medal | | |
| 1963 | Gregoris Lambrakis | Person | Greece | Gold medal | Posthumous award | |
| 1963 | Jaramogi Oginga Odinga | Person | Kenya | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Julián Grimau | Person | Spain | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1964 | Tawfiq Munir | Person | Iraq | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1964 | Ahmed Boumendjel | Person | Algeria | Gold medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1964 | Árpád Szakasits | Person | Hungary | Gold medal | Marking his 75th birthday. | |
| 1964 | Ferdinando Targetti | Person | Italy | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Walter Friedrich | Person | Germany DR | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Alfred Weber | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Wilhelm Elfes | Person | Germany FR | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Hewlett Johnson | Person | United Kingdom | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Stanisław Kulczyński | Person | Poland | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Yiangos Potamitis | Person | Cyprus | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Alberto T. Casella | Person | Argentina | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | José R. Gabaldón | Person | Venezuela | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Jean Boulier | Person | France | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Wanda Wasilewska | Person | Soviet Union / Poland | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Viktor Chkhikvadze | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Mikhail Kotov | Person | Soviet Union | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Hiroshima | Place | Japan | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Nagasaki | Place | Japan | Gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Nelson Mandela | Person | South Africa | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1964 | Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz | Person | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1965 | Khaled Mohi El Din | Person | Egypt | Gold medal | | |
| 1965 | Shafi Ahmed el Sheikh | Person | Sudan | Gold medal | | |
| 1965 | Francis John Hartley & A. M. Dickie | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1965 | Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop | Person | Australia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1966 | Valentina Tereshkova | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1966 | Agostinho Neto | Person | Angola | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1966 | Juan Marinello Vidaurreta | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1968 | Pablo Neruda | Person | Chile | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1969 | György Lukács | Person | Hungary | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1969 | Dondogiyn Tsevegmid | Person | Mongolia | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1969 | Denis Nowell Pritt | Person | United Kingdom | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1969 | Hugo Pesce | Person | Peru | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1970 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Person | India | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1971 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Person | United States | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Posthumous award, accepted by Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. | |
| 1971 | Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum | Organisation | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1972 | Amílcar Cabral | Person | Guinea-Bissau / Cape Verde | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1972 | Fidel Castro | Person | Cuba | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1972 | Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | Person | Mongolia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1972 | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Person | Egypt | Joliot-Curie medal | Posthumous award. | |
| 1972 | Salvador Allende | Person | Chile | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | [54] [57][58] |
| 1972 | Coalition for Peace and Justice | Organisation | United States | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1972 | Organization of African Unity | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1972 | "the people of Lao fighting for independence and freedom" | Place | Laos | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1973 | Raymond Goor | Person | Belgium | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1973 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | Person | Bangladesh | Joliot-Curie gold medal | For his contribution to the establishment of world peace. | |
| 1974 | Edward Gierek | Person | Poland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Urho Kekkonen | Person | Finland | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Yasser Arafat | Person | Palestine | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Makarios III | Person | Cyprus | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Government of North Vietnam | Organisation | Vietnam DR | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Government of South Vietnam | Organisation | Vietnam Rep | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation | Organisation | International | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1975 | Leonid Brezhnev | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Considered a riposte to Andrei Sakharov's 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| 1976 | Samora Machel | Person | Mozambique | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1977 | Vietnam | Place | Vietnam | Joliot-Curie medal | Presented to Nguyễn Hữu Thọ. The Vietnamese government had earlier awarded the WPC its Friendship Order. | |
| 1977 | World Marxist Review | Work | Czechoslovakia | | | |
| 1977 | Nicolae Ceauşescu | Person | Romania | Joliot-Curie medal | The award was delayed by Soviet objections, but pushed through by Indira Gandhi. | |
| 1978 | Mengistu Haile Mariam | Person | Ethiopia | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1979 | [[Laos President Souphanouvong {{{last}}}]] | Person | Laos | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1979 | Michael Manley | Person | Jamaica | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1980 | Heng Samrin | Person | Kampuchea | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1980 | Yasser Arafat | Person | Palestine | Ho Chi Minh award | | |
| 1980 | Federico Sotolongo Guerra | Person | Cuba | Medal | | |
| 1981 | Sandinista National Liberation Front | Organisation | Nicaragua | Ho Chi Minh award | | |
| 1981 | Líber Seregni | Person | Uruguay | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1983 | Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy | Person | India | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Director of the UN Centre against Apartheid | |
| 1983 | Yusuf Maitama Sule | Person | Nigeria | Joliot-Curie gold medal | Chairman of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid | |
| 1985 | James E. Jackson | Person | United States | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1986 | African National Congress | Organisation | South Africa | Ho Chi Minh award | Accepted by Oliver Tambo. | |
| 1986 | Sam Nujoma | Person | Namibia | Ho Chi Minh award | | |
| 1986 | Bratislava | Place | Czechoslovakia | Town of Peace | | |
| 1988 | Julius Nyerere | Person | Tanzania | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
| 1988 | Pimen I of Moscow | Person | Soviet Union | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| 1989 | Daniel Ortega | Person | Nicaragua | Joliot-Curie gold medal | | |
| ? | P. J. Patterson | Person | Jamaica | Joliot-Curie medal | | |
In 2002, the WPC denied news reports that it had given a prize to Meles Zenawi.