Quick facts – How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?
Oslo, NorwayReuters The winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 7th October in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: Who can win?The prize should go to the person “who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the […]
Russian journalist’s Nobel Peace Prize fetches record $US103.5 million at auction to aid Ukraine children
Reuters Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia’s last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $US103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine. All proceeds from the auction, which coincided with the World Refugee Day on Monday, […]
Pioneering Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace medal for Ukraine
Reuters Russian journalist and Nobel Peace laureate Dmitry Muratov is auctioning his Nobel medal for Ukrainian refugees, distraught at the eradication of independent media in his country, where he says fewer and fewer people support Moscow’s military campaign. Muratov is the bear-like co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper critical of the Kremlin […]
Attenborough, WHO, Tsikhanouskaya among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo, NorwayReuters British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, the World Health Organization and Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya are among the nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize after being backed by Norwegian lawmakers who have a track record of picking the winner. Thousands of people, from members of parliaments worldwide to former winners, are eligible to […]
Ethiopia PM must end Tigray conflict, Nobel committee says
Oslo, NorwayReuters The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize appealed on Thursday to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the award in 2019, to halt the conflict unfolding in the country’s northern region of Tigray. In a rare critique of a former laureate, the Norwegian Nobel committee said Abiy bore special responsibility for […]
Tutu’s family gathers in South Africa for Cape Town funeral
Cape Town, South AfricaAP Desmond Tutu’s family members gathered at his Cape Town home on Tuesday in preparation for his funeral this weekend as South Africans honored his life. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial equality and LGBT rights died Sunday at the age of 90. A woman places a floral tribute outside the […]
Updated: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s ‘moral compass’, dies at 90
Updated: 8.30am (AEDT)Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid who was revered as his nation’s conscience by both Black and white, died on Sunday aged 90. Tutu won the Nobel prize in 1984 in recognition of his non-violent opposition to white minority rule. […]
FW de Klerk, South African president who oversaw end of apartheid, dies at 85
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters South Africa’s last white President, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, died on Thursday leaving a final apology via video for crimes against other ethnic groups during decades of apartheid. “I, without qualification, apologise for the pain and the hurt and the indignity and the damage that apartheid has done to Black, […]
Essay: Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media
In an article first published on The Conversation, KATHY KIELY, journalist turned professor of journalism, says the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists was an important statement…
Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo, Norway/Moscow, Russia/Manila, The PhilippinesReuters Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, who braved the wrath of the leaders of the Philippines and Russia to expose corruption and misrule, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in an endorsement of free speech under fire worldwide. The two were awarded “for their courageous fight for freedom of […]