Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel committee blasts winner’s jail term
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has strongly criticized a jail term handed down in Belarus last week that will keep Nobel Laureate and human rights...
Tears and a standing ovation for Nobel Peace Prize winners
All three hard-pressed representatives of human rights organizations in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine were standing tall in Norway on Saturday, after accepting their joint...
Nobel Peace Prize winners demand justice for war crimes
Russia's war on Ukraine is far from over, neither is the "unseen war" within Belarus, but representatives of those awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
Peace Prize hails human rights heroes in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
The Norwegian Nobel Committee faces another empty chair at this year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in the Oslo City Hall, but thinks it's worth...
War overshadows upcoming Peace Prize
It's been a long time since the Norwegian Nobel Committee needed to choose a Peace Prize winner in the midst of war in Europe....
Hackers tried to attack Nobel prizes
Both the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm were targets of a cyberattack on the very day last month...
Tutu lost respect for Norway
As Norwegians paid their respects this week to the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at an age of 90, they were reminded...
Last year’s Nobel winner also spoke
David Beasley, head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), didn't get a chance to deliver an acceptance speech when WFP won the Nobel...
New Nobel Laureate blasts Facebook
Maria Ressa, one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to protect democracy through freedom of speech and...
Nobel week hit by lots of challenges
This week's annual celebrations of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo have been marred by disturbing events abroad involving former prize winners, and lots...
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