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Nobel Peace Prize will show that nuclear weapons can be abolished, winner says

October 11, 2024 admin

Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo said on Friday (September 11, 2024) that the group’s win of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would give a major boost to its efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible. “It would be a…

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Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo

October 11, 2024 admin

The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 has been awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, the Swedish Academy announced on Friday (October 11, 2024). The Nobel Committee said that Nihon Hidankyo was receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a…

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Nobel Peace Prize 2024 Goes To Japanese Organisation Nihon Hidankyo

October 11, 2024 admin

Delhi: Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo has been conferred with the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The organisation is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, which strives to “achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for…

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Court allows Philippine news site Rappler to continue operating: decision

August 9, 2024 admin

Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO gestures as she talks to reporters after being acquitted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court over a tax evasion case in Pasig City, Philippines, on Sept. 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A court has ruled that the Philippine news site Rappler can…

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Dr. Muhammad Yunus: The poor’s banker who fought Hasina

August 8, 2024 admin

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who was recommended by Bangladeshi student leaders as the head of the interim government in Bangladesh, waves at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, France August 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Filling the leadership vacuum in Bangladesh, albeit temporarily, Nobel Laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus has taken oath as…

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Norwegian Lawmaker Nominates Elon Musk For Nobel Peace Prize For Enabling “Free Speech”

February 21, 2024 admin

Elon Musk has been nominated for the award by Norwegian MP Marius Nilsen. Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X and Tesla, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian Member of Parliament Marius Nilsen, as per a report in Politico. The lawmaker announced his choice for the award and said that…

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Muhammad Yunus | Pioneer of microfinance

October 21, 2023 admin

Illustration: Sreejith R.Kumar Muhammad Yunus and his grassroots Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for lending a social conscience to capitalism and “their efforts to create economic and social development from below” in Bangladesh. At 83, the “banker to the poor” does not appear to be slowing down. He strives, he asserts,…

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Finnish Nobel Peace laureate Ahtisaari dies at 86

October 16, 2023 admin

File picture of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari poses with his medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo December 10, 2008. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nobel peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, who served as Finland’s 10th president between 1994 and 2000, died on Monday at the age of 86, the…

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Dalai Lama Hails Nobel Prize For Narges Mohammadi, Emphasizes Women’s Vital Role

October 7, 2023 admin

Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama Dharamshala: The Dalai Lama on Saturday congratulated jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi on winning the Nobel Peace Prize and said the award was also in recognition of the vital role women play in people’s lives. Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for…

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Iran slams Its Jailed Activist Nobel Peace Prize Win

October 6, 2023 admin

Iranian jailed rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Tehran: Media in Iran on Friday lambasted jailed rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, saying she had “collaborated with terrorist groups” and committed “anti-Iranian activities”. The 51-year-old journalist and activist has spent much of the past two decades…

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