page_title: Four Freedoms Award
section_title: Special presentations
hierarchical_section_title: Four Freedoms Award / Laureates / Special presentations
caption_attribution_description: English: “Mikhail Gorbachev”. General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR speaks at the opening of a UN General Assembly meeting. Русский: «Михаил Сергеевич Горбачев». Генеральный секретарь ЦК КПСС, председатель Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Михаил Сергеевич Горбачев выступает с речью перед Генеральной ассамблеей ООН. США, Нью-Йорк
context_page_description: The Four Freedoms Award is an annual award. It is presented to people and organisations who have "demonstrated" the principles of the Four Freedoms of US-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
  President Roosevelt described his Four Freedoms during the State of the Union speech of 6 January 1941. In his speech he said that if democracy is to survive and flourish, people everywhere in the world are entitled to four human rights: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
  The awards have been given since 1982, alternately in the United States and the Netherlands. In odd years the awards are given to Americans by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York. In some years special awards have been given.
  In even years the award ceremony is held in Middelburg and honours non-Americans. The choice for Middelburg was motivated by the suspected descendance of the family Roosevelt from the village of Oud-Vossemeer in the province of Zeeland.
caption: M. Gorbachev
  1990
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