"I came within a whisker of being tossed out of the fifth floor window of a downtown Romanian hospital while investigating some low-lifers who had bribed local officials, tethered infant orphans suffering from AIDS to their cots and injected them with an experimental drug to fast-track access to the lucrative drug market. My ensuing article was carried in major daily newspapers throughout England and the World Health Organization stepped in. Under pressure, the Romanian Government banned the experiments as unethical and condemned the people behind them."

Romania

"Facing the character-assassination attempts of the CIA while in Romania, by blocking its unethical intentions. To protect one of its agents, it tried to ramrod him on to the board of directors after he came under suspicion of pedophilia and lewd photography of victims at his so-called cultural institute near the Romanian-Ukraine border. The man was finally arrested, tried and served jail term."

Romania

"Being from west Belfast, one of the neighborhoods worst hit by violence during the Northern Irish troubles, I established the ‘Celtic Children for Peace’ after emigrating to the US. The project, still ongoing 20 years later, brings young Catholic and Protestant children from both sides of the religious divide together to encourage mutual understanding and long-term peace."

United States

"As a medical correspondent in Kansas City, I embarked on a marathon, two-year series of news and feature articles on the tragic plight of Jeff, a hockey-loving teenager with leukemia and his tenacious parents who struggled to establish a national bone marrow computer registry. Their efforts finally succeeded when appropriate legislation was passed on Capital Hill, tragically too late for Jeff who died at the tender age of 16 as we frantically searched for a donor through a moribund, cumbersome system.”

United States

"Being presented with the prestigious Medal of Honor for Public Services by the Romanian National Anti-Corruption Office in the foyer of its building standing beside a full-size statue of the nation’s medieval hero and voivod, Vlad the Impaler."

Romania