Oct 05 Watch 5:32 Nobel Peace Prize winners fight rape as ‘a weapon of war’ The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday in Oslo, Norway. The winners are two people fighting sexual violence. Twenty-five-year-old Nadia Murad, from Iraq, escaped enslavement, rape, and torture. She says she hopes to be “the last girl with a story… Continue watching
Oct 05 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad, Denis Mukwege for fight against sexual violence By Larisa Epatko “Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday. Continue reading
Mar 31 Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown By Sherin Zada and Munir Ahmed, Associated Press Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Saturday arrived in her hometown for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education. Continue reading
Oct 06 Nuclear disarmament coalition wins the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize By Jennifer Hijazi The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for drawing "attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch 3:41 How Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo became the face of peaceful political opposition in China By PBS News Hour Nobel laureate and renowned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo died Thursday in China after complications with liver cancer. Since 2009, Liu had served time behind bars after calling for political reform that would democratize his homeland’s government. His work and… Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch 4:30 Rejected FARC deal earns Colombian president the Nobel Peace Prize By PBS News Hour On Friday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to negotiate a treaty with the guerrilla group FARC and put an end to the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere. The honor was… Continue watching
Oct 07 Colombian president gets this year’s Nobel Peace Prize By Larisa Epatko Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to forge an agreement with FARC rebels to end the country’s 52-year civil war. Just last Sunday, Colombians rejected that landmark deal, sending it back to… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch 1:29 When MLK Jr. lamented ‘we have not learned the simple art of living together’ By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, the Nobel Prize Foundation released the full audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Peace Prize acceptance speech. Continue watching
Oct 09 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Tunisian mediators for aiding country’s transition to democracy By Joshua Barajas The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for its role in the building of a pluralistic democracy" in the country following the Jasmine Revolution in 2011. Continue reading
Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi honor ‘forgotten children’ By Larisa Epatko Malala Yousafzai said she was “very proud” to represent her country Pakistan in winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and in being the youngest Nobel recipient at age 17. “Along with that, I’m pretty certain that I’m also the first recipient… Continue reading