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Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted, to face jail in Bangladesh

Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit and lifting millions out of poverty

Children of Narges Mohammadi to accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony on Sunday in the Norwegian capital. Mohammadi is renowned for campaigning for women's rights and democracy in her country, as well as fighting against the death penalty. Ali and Kiana Rahmani, Mohammadi's twin 17-year-old children who live in exile in Paris with their father, will be given the prestigious award at Oslo City Hall, after which they will give the Nobel Peace Prize lecture in their mother's name. Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in October for her decades of activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She is currently detained in a prison in Tehran. At a news conference in Oslo on Saturday, Kiana Rahmani read out a message from her mother, in which the imprisoned activist praised the role international media played in conveying the voice of dissenters, protesters and hu

Henry Kissinger: Diplomatic powerhouse who shaped US foreign policy

Kissinger was known for his disdain for India's leadership in the 1970s, but he had been advocating strong ties with India after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014

Iran unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including Narges: UN

Iran is cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an alarming number of executions, the UN independent investigator on human rights in the Islamic Republic said in a report circulated Friday. The wide-ranging report by Javaid Rehman, covering the period from October 2022 through July, was written before the announcement early Friday that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Mohammadi, a longtime campaigner for women's rights even from her current cell in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. Rehman, a Pakistani-born professor of international human rights law at Brunel University in London, singled out Mohammadi among lawyers and human rights defenders imprisoned for their work in the report to the General Assembly. He was highly critical of the excessive and lethal use of force unleashed by Iranian authorities in reaction to nationwide protests following the 2022 death of Mahs

Nobel Peace Prize 2023 awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023

Nobel Prize winners in 2023, check the complete list, name and fields below

The Nobel Prize winners for 2023 belong to a variety of different fields, a few awards are yet to be announced. Here is the full list of all the Nobel Prize winners in 2023

International Malala Day 2023: Date, Theme, Significance & History

International Malala Day is marked on July 12 every year to honour the bravery and activism of Pakistani activist and nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

Nobel peace laureate transferred to brutal prison in Belarus, says his wife

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been transferred to a notoriously brutal prison in Belarus and hasn't been heard from in a month, his wife said Wednesday. Natalia Pinchuk told The Associated Press that Bialiatski, who is serving a 10-year sentence, has been kept in an information blackout since his transfer to the N9 colony for repeat offenders in the city of Gorki, where inmates are beaten and subject to hard labor. The authorities create unbearable conditions for Ales and keep him in strict informational isolation. There is not a single letter from him for a month, nor does he receive my letters, Pinchuk said by telephone. In March, a court convicted 60-year-old Bialiatski Belarus' top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize and three of his colleagues on charges of financing actions violating public order and smuggling. It was the latest move in a years-long crackdown on dissent that has engulfed the country since 2020. Bialia

Fact check: Did Asle Toje call PM Modi biggest contender for Nobel Prize?

Reports claimed that deputy leader of the Nobel Prize Committee Asle Toje endorsed PM Narendra Modi for the coveted prize. But did he really say so? Find out here

From physics to literature, all about the winners of the Nobel Prize 2022

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the first Nobel of the year, for initiating the field of ancient DNA studies

Belarus's Bialiatski joins small group of jailed Nobel Peace laureates

Belarussian pro-democracy campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with human rights groups in Russia and Ukraine, is the fourth person in the 121-year history of the Nobel Prizes to receive the award while in prison or detention. Bialiatski, 60, who founded the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Center Viasna, was detained following protests in 2020 against the re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. He remains in jail without trial and faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted. Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen urged Belarus to release Bialiatski but acknowledged that chances of that happening in time for the Dec. 10 award ceremony were slim. Here is a look at what happened to the other Nobel Peace Prize winners who were in captivity when they were awarded the prize. CARL VON OSSIETZKY The German journalist, a staunch opponent of militarism, was imprisoned for exposing secret plans for German rearmament in the 1920s.

Cold War echo in Nobel Peace Prize honours amid Russia-Ukraine conflict

Belarusian security police in July 2021 raided offices and homes of lawyers and human rights activists, detaining Bialiatski and others in a new crackdown on opponents of Lukashenko

Nobel Peace Prize: A look at the peacemakers from Belarus, Russia & Ukraine

For many years, these laureates promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens

Belarusian activist, Russian and Ukrainian group win Nobel Peace Prize

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organisation Center for Civil Liberties. The winner was announced Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with the award in medicine honouring a scientist who unlocked the secrets of Neanderthal DNA. Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday for showing that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated. The prize for chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists who developed ways of connecting molecules that can be used to design more targeted drugs. French author Annie Ernaux won this year's Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Prize for economics will be announced on Monday, Oct. 10.

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: A look at the past 10 awards and their work

There are 343 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations

Barry Sharpless wins second Nobel: A look at all the two-time awardees

Barry Sharpless was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on "click chemistry", becoming only the fifth person to win the prize for the second time

Alt News' Pratik Sinha, Mohammed Zubair contenders for Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to people "who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"

Nobel Prize season arrives amid Russia-Ukraine war, nuclear fears, hunger

Members of the European Parliament have called for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine to be recognised this year by the Nobel Peace Prize committee

Nobel Peace Prize sold for Ukrainian kids shatters record at $103.5 mn

The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold for 4103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel

BSE head asks if Nobel prize will be considered for PM's food scheme

We have performed very well in managing Covid despite our per capita earning being 10-30 times lower than that of developed nations: BSE chief on India's food program during pandemic