Tag: Nobel Peace Prize

• Friday, October 11th 2024 - 19:03 UTC

  Japanese organization of atom bomb survivors granted 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  Given its commitment to a nuclear-free world, the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Norway's Nobel Committee in Oslo announced Friday. It was the first time in 50 years that a Japanese recipient has been awarded the prize.

• Saturday, October 7th 2023 - 07:00 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize for imprisoned Iranian woman activist; UN calls on Teheran to release all human rights defenders

  

  Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her tireless campaign for women's rights and against the death penalty. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed Ms Narges and the Peace Prize as a tribute to all those women who are fighting for their rights at the risk of their freedom, health and lives.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize for Ethiopian prime minister who ended decades of hostility with neighboring Eritrea

  

  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 21:58 UTC

  Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi no longer deserving of Amnesty International award

  

  Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, once deemed worthy of Amnesty International's highest honour, was stripped the the human rights organization's Ambassador of Conscience Award, which she received in 2009, due to “shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for,” it was announced Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to a woman: first time in 55 years

  

  A trio of United States, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into precision tools for everything from eye surgery to micro-machining.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 21:27 UTC

  Controversy over criteria for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize

  

  Swedish authorities are looking into whether the Nobel Peace Prize has been going to the “wrong” type of people, like human rights campaigners and environmentalists, in violation of prize founder Alfred Nobel's will.

• Friday, October 7th 2011 - 17:50 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize honours indomitable women and the “Arab Spring”

  

  Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize today to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression - a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.