Nobel Peace Prize

Japanese NGO Nihon Hidankyo secures Nobel Peace Prize 2024

October 11, 2024

Japanese NGO Nihon Hidankyo secures Nobel Peace Prize 2024

Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha.

August 08, 2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arrives in strife-torn Bangladesh to lead interim govt

A harsh critic of Hasina, Yunus, 84, arrived in Dhaka following medical treatment in Paris, after protesters backed him for the role in a government tasked with holding elections for a new leader.
August 07, 2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh interim government

Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for work to lift millions out of poverty by granting small loans of under $100 to the rural poor of Bangladesh.
November 30, 2023
American diplomat, Nobel winner Henry Kissinger dies at 100

Kissinger's reign as the prime architect of US foreign policy waned with Nixon's resignation in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal.
October 06, 2023
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammadi is one of Iran's leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty
March 16, 2023
Media reports pick PM Modi a contender for Nobel Peace Prize; Nobel official calls it fake news

Asle Toje, the deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said 'Let's not give it energy or oxygen, I deny saying anything resembling what was in the tweet.'
March 03, 2023
Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in jail for financing protests

Rights groups say his arrest and subsequent sentence are politically motivated.

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