Nelson Mandela

=== Orders, decorations, monuments, and honours ===
{{Main|List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela}}
Over the course of his life, Mandela was given over 250 awards, accolades, prizes, honorary degrees and citizenships in recognition of his political achievements.<ref name=CT12>{{Cite news |title=How the awards have just kept flooding in |date=18 July 2012 |work=The Cape Times}}</ref> Among his awards were the Nobel Peace Prize,{{sfnm|1a1=Barber|1y=2004|1p=68|2a1=Lodge|2y=2006|2p=182|3a1=Meredith|3y=2010|3p=494|4a1=Sampson|4y=2011|4p=474}} the US [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020709-8.html |title=President Honors Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom |date=9 July 2002 |publisher=The White House |access-date=26 October 2008 |archive-date=7 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507035022/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020709-8.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the Soviet Union's [[Lenin Peace Prize]],<ref name=CT12/> and the Libyan [[Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights]].<ref name="TimeGadafiPrize">{{cite news|title=Prizes: And the Winner Is ...|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957634,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022074618/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957634,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2010|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=8 May 1989|access-date=24 October 2012}}</ref> In 1990, India awarded him the [[Bharat Ratna]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/list-of-all-bharat-ratna-award-winners-81336 |title=List of all Bharat Ratna award winners |date=21 January 2011 |publisher=NDTV |access-date=14 February 2013 |archive-date=11 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311165846/http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/list-of-all-bharat-ratna-award-winners-81336 |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 1992 Pakistan gave him their [[Nishan-e-Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Mandela in Pakistan |newspaper=The Independent |publisher=Independent Print Limited |date=3 October 1992 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mandela-in-pakistan-1555096.html |access-date=7 June 2010 |archive-date=24 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324023657/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mandela-in-pakistan-1555096.html |url-status=live |location=London }}</ref> The same year, he was awarded the Atatürk Peace Award by Turkey; he at first refused the award, citing human rights violations committed by Turkey at the time,<ref name=ataturk>{{cite web |url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1992/pr0412a.html |title=Statement on the Ataturk Award given to Nelson Mandela |date=12 April 1992 |publisher=African National Congress |access-date=2 January 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061001161737/http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1992/pr0412a.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 1 October 2006}}</ref> but later accepted the award in 1999.<ref name=CT12/> He was appointed to the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1999-3755 |title=Royal Decree 270/1999, 12th February 1999 |date=13 February 1999 |work=Spanish Official State Gazette |access-date=13 September 2017 |archive-date=13 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913135112/https://boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1999-3755 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Order of Canada]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/southafrica-afriquedusud/eyes_abroad-coupdoeil/NelsonMandelaDJ.aspx?lang=eng&view=d |title=Canada presents Nelson Mandela with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal |date=23 August 2012 |publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada |access-date=14 February 2013 |archive-date=2 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502173317/http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/southafrica-afriquedusud/eyes_abroad-coupdoeil/NelsonMandelaDJ.aspx?lang=eng&view=d |url-status=dead}}</ref> and was the first living person to be made an [[Honorary Citizenship of Canada|honorary Canadian citizen]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2001/11/19/mandela_011119.html |title=Mandela to be honoured with Canadian citizenship |date=19 November 2001 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=26 October 2008 |archive-date=23 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623133504/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2001/11/19/mandela_011119.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Queen Elizabeth II appointed him as a Bailiff Grand Cross of the [[Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)|Order of St. John]] and granted him membership in the [[Order of Merit]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1880.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050105152154/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1880.asp |archive-date=5 January 2005 |title=The Order of Merit |date = November 2002|publisher=Royal Insight |access-date=26 October 2008}}</ref>

In 2004, Johannesburg granted Mandela the Freedom of the City,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gpg.gov.za/docs/nz/2004/nz0727.html |title=Madiba conferred freedom of Johannesburg |date=27 July 2004 |publisher=Gauteng Provincial Government |access-date=26 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621081749/http://www.gpg.gov.za/docs/nz/2004/nz0727.html|archive-date=21 June 2008}}</ref> and in 2008 a Mandela statue was unveiled at the spot where Mandela was released from prison.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703:mandelastatue270808&catid=42:land_news&Itemid=110 |title=Long walk immortalised in bronze |last=Stern |first=Jennifer |date=27 August 2008 |publisher=Media Club South Africa |access-date=30 November 2009 |archive-date=24 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724045736/http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703:mandelastatue270808&catid=42:land_news&Itemid=110 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the [[Day of Reconciliation]] 2013, a bronze statue of Mandela was unveiled at Pretoria's Union Buildings.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nelson Mandela statue unveiled in Pretoria by Zuma|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25399709|work=BBC News|access-date=23 December 2013|date=16 December 2013|archive-date=19 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219063446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25399709|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2009, the [[United Nations General Assembly]] proclaimed Mandela's birthday, 18 July, as "[[Mandela Day]]", marking his contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle. It called on individuals to donate 67 minutes to doing something for others, commemorating the 67 years that Mandela had been a part of the movement.<ref>{{harvnb|Battersby|2011|p=601}}; {{cite news
 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8353853.stm
 |title=UN gives backing to 'Mandela Day'
 |work=BBC News|access-date=11 November 2009
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| archive-date=29 August 2013
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829172211/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8353853.stm
 |url-status=live
}}</ref> In 2015 the UN General Assembly named the amended [[Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners]] as "the Mandela Rules" to honour his legacy.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.un.org/ga/search/viewm_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/70/L.3 |title=Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners from the United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |date=29 September 2015 |page=6 |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930064510/https://www.un.org/ga/search/viewm_doc.asp?symbol=A/C.3/70/L.3 |url-status=live }}</ref> Subsequently, the years 2019 to 2028 were also designated the United Nations Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N18/303/56/PDF/N1830356.pdf?OpenElement | title=Ods Home Page | access-date=23 December 2022 | archive-date=23 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223011151/https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N18/303/56/PDF/N1830356.pdf?OpenElement | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.un.org/en/events/mandeladay/decade_of_peace.shtml | title=Nelson Mandela International Day | access-date=23 December 2022 | archive-date=18 December 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218230025/https://www.un.org/en/events/mandeladay/decade_of_peace.shtml | url-status=live }}</ref>
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