2023-10-06 09:16:30
Oslo
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Narges Mohammadi
The Nobel Committee in Oslo announced on Friday who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The Iranian Narges Mohammadi is honored.
Updated6. October 2023, 11:16
Narges Mohammadi receives this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize that is not awarded in the Swedish capital Stockholm, but in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
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Narges Mohammadi will be awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
The human rights activist is still imprisoned in her home country.
Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to the imprisoned Belarusian human rights lawyer Ales Byaljazki as well as the human rights organizations Memorial from Russia and the Center for Civil Liberties from Ukraine.
Iranian Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Those still imprisoned in their home country will be saved for theirs Fight for women’s rights in Iran honored, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday in Oslo.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize also recognized the hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated once morest the theocratic regime’s discrimination and oppression of women.
The Iranian journalist and activist played a central role in the fight for women’s rights and freedom of expression in her country. She has been imprisoned repeatedly since 1998 for this. She has been in prison since November 2021 for “propaganda once morest the state”. The Nobel Committee expressed hope that Iran would release Mohammadi. The United Nations said that awarding the prize to the 51-year-old highlighted the courage of Iranian women.
Prizes are worth 912,000 francs
Last year the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to those imprisoned Belarusian human rights lawyer Ales Bialyazki as well as the human rights organizations Memorial from Russia and Center for Civil Liberties from Ukraine. They were honored, among other things, for their commitment to civil societies in their home countries, the right to criticize power and the protection of the basic rights of citizens.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize that is not awarded in the Swedish capital Stockholm, but in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The winners in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry and literature had already been announced in Stockholm from Monday to Thursday. At the end of this year’s prize announcements, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will follow on Monday. This time, all prizes are worth eleven million crowns (around 912,000 francs) per category.
2022: “Three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence” share the prestigious award with the Russian human rights group Memorial, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Freedom and the imprisoned Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialyazki.
2021: The Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and the Russian journalist Dmitri Muratov are honored for their “courageous fight for freedom of expression”.
2020: The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) receives the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to “fight world hunger”.
2019: The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is awarded the prize because of his “efforts for peace” and in particular his “determined commitment to resolving the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea”.
2018: Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad will be honored for their efforts to “put an end to sexual violence as a weapon of war.”
2017: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) is recognized for its contribution to the adoption of a historic treaty banning nuclear weapons.
2016: Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to ending the armed conflict with the FARC guerrillas.
2015: The Nobel Peace Prize goes to a dialogue quartet of four Tunisian civil society organizations that have made a “decisive contribution to building a pluralistic democracy” in Tunisia.
2014: The Pakistani children’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai and the children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi from India are being honored “for their fight once morest the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
2013: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to rid the planet of these weapons of mass destruction.
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