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Friday, October 06, 2023
Iranian Women's Rights Campaigner Narges Mohammadi Wins Nobel Peace Prize | DW News
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel peace prize: Mohammadi wins prize for her fight against oppression of women in Iran and to promote human rights for all »
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Inside Story - Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
No less than 318 people and organisations are nominated. The nominations are supposed to be secret but on the list are expected to be the White Helmets search and rescuers in Syria, Pope Francis and Donald Trump.
Previous winners have been controversial, including Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, Vietnam war diplomat Henry Kissinger - and now Aung San Suu Kyi.
With hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims escaping the army campaign in Myanmar, critics are questioning how the 1991 Nobel Laureate can remain silent.
Who are the other questionable winners from the past?
Presenter: Adrian Finighan | Guests: Fredrik Heffermehl - Author of 'Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted'; Rohan Jayasekera - Journalist and Editor at Vivarta digital media news organization; Azeem Ibrahim - Center for Global Policy & author of 'The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide'
Saturday, October 03, 2015
Angela Merkel 'Firm Favourite' for Nobel Prize over Refugee Crisis - But Losing Favour in Germany
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| A migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district in September 2015 |
Speculation is mounting that Angela Merkel will win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her handling of the European refugee crisis and the war in Ukraine, just as public opinion in Germany is hardening on the migrant issue.
The German Chancellor has emerged as the firm favourite for the 2015 peace prize, the winner of which will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee next Friday.
But even as she is lauded on the international stage, Mrs Merkel is facing growing opposition to her refugee policy at home, where her personal approval rating with voters has plummeted nine percentage points in a single month, according to the findings of a new opinion poll. » | Justin Huggler in Berlin | Friday, October 2, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
Former Nobel Official: Obama Prize Failed to Achieve Goals
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| President Obama receiving his prize in 2009 |
In a break with Nobel tradition, the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee says the 2009 award to President Barack Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.
Geir Lundestad writes in a book released on Thursday that the committee had expected the prize to deliver a boost to Obama. Instead the award was met with fierce criticism in the US, where many argued Obama had not been president long enough to have an impact worthy of the Nobel.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book read by The Associated Press. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for." » | AP | Friday, September 19, 2015
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Editor at Centre of Mohammed Cartoons Controversy in Denmark Nominated for Nobel Prize
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| Flemming Rose |
The Danish newspaper editor who published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nearly a decade ago has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France.
Flemming Rose, 58, who still lives under police guard because of death threats, was put forward for this year's award by Michael Tetzschner, a Norwegian MP.
The move was a response to the attack by Islamist gunmen on cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris last month.
"Giving the prize to a consistent defender of freedom of expression, even at a personal cost, would give a sign that those who try to muzzle that freedom through cowardly attacks against civilians, thus undermining peace between peoples, cannot ever succeed," Mr Tetzschner wrote in his letter to the Nobel committee, according to Norway's NTB news agency.
As cultural editor of Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, Mr Rose he was principally responsible for commissioning a series of drawings of Mohammed that were published in September 2005. Most strands of Islam disapprove of depictions of Mohammed, viewing it as akin to idolatry. » | Colin Freeman, Chief foreign correspondent | Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Barack Obama Aide Condemned Norway for 'Fawning' over President by Awarding Him Nobel Prize
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| The decision to give Obama the Nobel prize was met with considerable derision and criticism |
A senior Norwegian diplomat says his country's former ambassador to the United States was given a verbal lashing by Barack Obama's chief of staff when the president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
Morten Wetland said Thursday the ambassador, Wegger Stroemmen, was approached by Rahm Emanuel, now Chicago's mayor, who accused Norway of "fawning" to the newly elected U.S. leader.
Wetland, the Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations at the time, told The Associated Press he did not witness the dressing down but said there was an air of embarrassment in Washington that Obama had been given the award so early in his presidency. » | AP | Thursday, May 15, 2014
Monday, October 14, 2013
Bashar al-Assad: The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Been Mine
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, has joked that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize after it was awarded to the international weapons watchdog currently destroying his regime's massive chemical arsenal.
The prize, which was given to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Friday, "should have been mine," he said.
The remark, which the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted, was made "jokingly" during a recent meeting with visitors at the presidential palace, the newspaper said.
However, it might be viewed as inappropriate when uttered by a president whose civil war has already cost more than 115,000 lives. A chemical weapons attack in Damascus in August, widely blamed on the Syrian government, reportedly killed more than 1,200 people. » | Ruth Sherlock, Beirut | Monday, October 14, 2013
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Vladimir Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Despite Russia’s role as the main supplier of weapons to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an advocacy group has put the president’s name forward because the former KGB agent “actively promotes settlement of all conflicts arising on the planet.”
The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of Peoples of the World made no mention of Putin’s ruthless and violent campaign against the separatists in Chechnya or the war he waged on Georgia, but instead points to his efforts to prevent a US air strike on the Syrian regime following a chemical gas attack in August. » | Felicity Morse | Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Monday, September 02, 2013
Barack Obama 'Does Not Deserve' His Nobel Peace Prize Say Angry Syrian Refugees in Zaatari Camp
Before Mohammad Dallah fled his home in Ghouta in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb, he sealed a band of brothers pact with two elder siblings.
After an arduous trek through his war-torn country, the 22-year old reached the vast Jordanian refugee camp Zaatari on Sunday but his mood was one of bitter disappointment.
He proclaimed himself trapped as he squinted against the harsh glare of the sunlight on the grey gravel flint of the camp. News that President Barack Obama had put military intervention on hold pending Congressional approval was a hammer blow.
Showing an awareness of international policy that belied the destitution of a newly arrived refugee, he called for the Nobel Prize committee to relieve the US president of his 2009 peace prize.>br />
"America has a responsibility to launch strikes to prevent the killing by Assad. Obama has a Nobel Prize but he does not deserve it because he has not responded to so many deaths," he said. » | Damien McElroy, Zaatari, Jordan | Monday, September 02, 2013
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
REUTERS.COM: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest and said full political freedom in her country was still a long way off."Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal," Suu Kyi said in her acceptance speech during her first trip to Europe in nearly 25 years.
"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today."
Suu Kyi, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, advocated caution about transformation in Myanmar, whose quasi-civilian government continues to hold political prisoners.
"There still remain such prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten," Suu Kyi, 66, told a packed Oslo City Hall.
A day earlier, she arrived from Switzerland to a jubilant reception as dancing and chanting crowds filled Oslo's streets and showered her with flowers. » | Balazs Koranyi | OSLO | Saturday, June 16, 2012
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