Editing Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (section)

==Other awards==
In 1995, he received the [[John Humphrey Freedom Award]] from the Canadian human rights group [[Rights & Democracy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/humphrey_award/index.php?subsection=about_the_award |title=John Humphrey Freedom Award 2009 |year=2010 |publisher=Rights & Democracy |access-date=11 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927210443/http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/humphrey_award/index.php?subsection=about_the_award |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>

On 3 August 1988 he received the Grand Cross of the [[Order of Liberty]] from the government of Portugal.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153&list=1 | website = Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas | language = pt | access-date = 1 October 2022 | title = Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas}}</ref>

In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by [[CEU Cardinal Herrera University]].

He was named the Lusophonic Personality of the Year 2010 by the [[:pt:Movimento Internacional Lusófono|International Lusophone Movement]] of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = 30 September 2022 | language = pt | url = https://movimentolusofono.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/personalidade-lusofona-de-2010-d-ximenes-belo/ | date = 22 February 2011 | title = Personalidade Lusófona de 2010: D. Ximenes Belo }}</ref>