The Norwegian Nobel Committee unveiled this Friday on behalf of the winner of this year’s Peace Prize. It was decided to award the award to the defender of human rights Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
Together they demonstrate the importance of civil society for peace and democracy
They noted that the winners have gone to great lengths to document war crimes, human rights abuses, and abuse of power. “Together they demonstrate the importance of civil society for peace and democracy.”
“The Nobel Peace laureates represent civil society in their countries of origin. They have promoted for many years the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens,” they indicated on Twitter.
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In previous forecasts, the climate struggle and the Ukraine war dominated. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky the digital newspaper ‘The Kyiv Independent’ or the Ukrainian people appeared in the first places in the bookmakers, although their real options were reduced.
Apart from the fact that the war conflict is in its initial phase and still without a clear resolution, the deadline for presenting candidatures ended on January 31, almost a month before the start of the Russian military intervention. But the members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee could propose their own candidates at the first meeting of this body, which was held in early March.
In the previous pools they also appeared the World Health Organization (WHO), the Black Lives Matter movement, Pope Francis, the journalist Julian Assange and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, among others.
According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish tycoon who instituted the prizes that bear his name, university professors of Law, History and Political Science, parliamentarians, former laureates and members of international tribunals, among others, can nominate candidates for the Peace Award. .
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Only if those who propose a person or organization make it public can the identity of the candidates be known, since the Norwegian Nobel Committee only publishes the total number of applicants -343 in 2022, the second highest figure- and does not confirm names until 50 years later.
Thus it is known that among the nominees this year are also the Arctic Council, the Burmese civil disobedience movement and the Honduran scientist María Elena Bottazzi for her contribution to humanity with the Corbevax vaccine against covid.
The Nobel Peace Prize recognized last year for the first time two journalists, the Filipino Maria Ressa and the Russian Dmitri Murátov, “for his efforts to defend freedom of expression, a precondition for democracy and lasting peace“, according to the ruling.
This is the only one of the six prizes that is awarded and It is delivered outside of Sweden, in Oslo, at the express wish of the creator of the awards, the Swedish tycoon Alfred Nobelsince at the time Norway was part of the neighboring country.
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