Nobel Peace Prize
Guatemalan 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu (R) hugs a relative of a victim of Guatemala's civil war during the trial against former Guatemalan de facto President (1982-1983), retired General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, on charges of genocide committed during his regime, in Guatemala City, on May 10, 2013. Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and war crimes on Friday in a landmark ruling stemming from massacres of indigenous people in his country's long civil war. Rios Montt thus became the first Latin American convicted of trying to exterminate an entire group of people in a brief but particularly gruesome stretch of a war that started in 1960, lasted 36 years and left around 200,000 people dead or missing.
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The world body’s (the UN's) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore
Sometimes it’s a race for the Nobel Peace prize
In his searching Nobel Peace Prize speech (in December 2009), Obama recognised the occasional inescapability of war and the imperative of waging it justlyMore quotes »
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Thieves in UK steal 1934 Nobel Peace Prize
-- Police in northern England say thieves have stolen a gold Nobel Peace Prize awarded in the 1930s.Northumbria Police say burglars broke into the cellar of the Newcastle Lord Mayor's house overnight between April 1 and April 2 and stole "a number" of very Read more »
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Letter: UNICEF looks past politics to kids
work of UNICEF -- a humanitarian organization that has helped save more children's lives than any other and has won the Nobel Peace Prize . He further suggests that American children should not participate in Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, the oldest and most Read more »
Around the web
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Peace studies centre opens at Queen’s
institute that will examine peace-building throughout the world has been opened by the former president of Finland and Nobel peace prize winner, Martti Ahtisaari. Mr Ahtisaari, who was an arms inspector during the peace process, launched the Institute for from Irish Times Read more »
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China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu
Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda, Her Royal Highness Princess Irene Emma Elisabeth of the Netherlands, two time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Founding President of the Club of Budapest, Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Dr. Qu Geping, Honorary President of the China from Forbes Read more »
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Fairleigh Dickinson graduates urged to give back to society
Peace Prize winner Jody Williams took off her black high heels and showed a bare foot to the crowd at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s graduation Tuesday in honor of a little Cambodian girl who lost her leg to a land mine. A graduate waves during the commencement from NorthJersey.com Read more »
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Acceptance speeches: Say it in five words
asked our writers to offer their own five-word takes on famous acceptance speeches. “Can I still use drones?” Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, 2009 “Gather, sob, gather, sob, gather” Kate Winslet, Golden Globes, 2009 “Shove it up your backside” Marlon Brando, from The Independent Read more »
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Justice’s assaults on journalists could give black eye to US
without fear of being found out, thus defeating the entire point of independent media. President Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in anticipation of Obama’s likely contributions to diplomacy for peace, nuclear nonproliferation, an outstretched from The Moderate Voice Read more »
