Tag: Nobel Peace Prize

  • Posti remembers the late president Martti Ahtisaari with a special mourning stamp

    Posti remembers the late president Martti Ahtisaari with a special mourning stamp

    Berry used this tribute when composing the photo Tuukka Koski to elegantly create a dignified image of the former president. Each stamp sheet contains ten domestic worthless stamps. The stamp comes with a first-day cover and a cache with the remarkable phrase “Peace is a matter of will” on the cover, a quote from Ahtisaari's…

  • India, Sweden wants to make things smarter and more sustainable: Swedish envoy

    India, Sweden wants to make things smarter and more sustainable: Swedish envoy

    New Delhi [India], November 9 (ANI): Sweden's ambassador to India, Jan Thesleff, said that India and Sweden want to work together to make things that are “smarter and more sustainable.” He noted that the bond between India and Sweden dates back to independence. Speaking at the celebration of 75 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden…

  • Britain to prosecute Greta Thunberg – WaPo

    Britain to prosecute Greta Thunberg – WaPo

    The police have charged the Swedish climate activist after she protested outside an oil and gas conference Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been ordered to appear in a British court after being arrested at a climate protest outside an oil and gas conference in London on Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Thunberg, 20, was…

  • Britain to prosecute Greta Thunberg WaPo

    Britain to prosecute Greta Thunberg WaPo

    The police have charged the Swedish climate activist after she protested outside an oil and gas conference Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been ordered to appear in a British court after being arrested at a climate protest outside an oil and gas conference in London on Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Thunberg, 20, was…

  • The former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, passed away at the age of 86

    The former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, passed away at the age of 86

    Born on June 23, 1937 in Vyborg, Ahtisaari’s early life was affected by the turmoil of the Second World War. His career in diplomacy spanned continents and made significant impacts in areas such as Namibia, Aceh in Indonesia, Kosovo, Serbia and Iraq. As the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo, he played a key role in…

  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned female Iranian activist

    Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned female Iranian activist

    OSLO, Norway – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi, a women’s and human rights activist imprisoned in Iran. Mohammadi has been arrested by the Iranian government 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. The Nobel committee said Mohammadi’s life embodies the “Woman…

  • The Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    The Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is imprisoned for her fight for women’s rights in Iran. Now she has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. “The award makes me resilient and hopeful,” says Mohammadi. “Women, Life, Liberty.” This is how Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen began her award speech, referring to the slogan Iranian women…

  • The Nobel Peace Prize is announced

    The Nobel Peace Prize is announced

    The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced at 11 a.m. Ekot broadcasts live with our foreign correspondents and experts commenting on the selection of award winners.

  • Norwegian writer Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

    Norwegian writer Fosse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature

    The Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy highlighted what it said were Fosse’s “innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unimaginable”. “His enormous oeuvre written in Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a variety of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays,…

  • Things to know about the Nobel Prize

    Things to know about the Nobel Prize

    STOCKHOLM – Autumn has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. At the beginning of October, the Nobel committees gather in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the annual prizes. First up is, as usual, the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, which will be announced on Monday by a…

  • Russia, Belarus, Iran dropped out of Nobel Foundation prize ceremonies

    Russia, Belarus, Iran dropped out of Nobel Foundation prize ceremonies

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Over the weekend, the Nobel Foundation withdrew its invitation to representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony. The move changed the award’s position from a year earlier when it invited representatives of the three countries to participate. On September 1, citing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Iran’s…

  • The Nobel Foundation withdraws the invitation to Russia

    The Nobel Foundation withdraws the invitation to Russia

    Under political pressure, the organization has reinstated its ban on Russian, Belarusian and Iranian envoys The Nobel Foundation has regretted its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia, Belarus and Iran to its annual award ceremony in Sweden in December. The foundation’s previous decision to invite these ambassadors caused outrage among Ukrainian and Swedish politicians. Russia…

  • Live: The Nobel Foundation invites the Russian envoy from the award ceremony

    Live: The Nobel Foundation invites the Russian envoy from the award ceremony

    The Nobel Foundation said on Saturday it was reversing its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, after the move sparked outrage. The news comes after Russia said its forces had destroyed Ukrainian naval drones trying to target the Crimean bridge. Follow our live blog for…

  • The Nobel Foundation cancels the Russian envoy’s invitation to the award ceremony

    The Nobel Foundation cancels the Russian envoy’s invitation to the award ceremony

    The Nobel Foundation said on Saturday it was reversing its decision to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, after the move sparked outrage. The news comes after Russia said its forces had destroyed Ukrainian naval drones trying to target the Crimean bridge. Read our live blog to…

  • Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus

    Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus

    Stockholm [Sweden]September 3 (ANI): After facing widespread criticism, the Nobel Foundation finally withdrew its invitations to three countries: Russia, Iran and Belarus, saying the invitations had drawn “strong reactions”, CNN reported. In a press release on Saturday, the Nobel Foundation said the ambassadors from the three countries (Russia, Belarus and Iran) would not be invited,…

  • The deadly violence continues to shake up, the Center Party’s choice of path forward and mass flight from Nagorno-Karabakh

    The deadly violence continues to shake up, the Center Party’s choice of path forward and mass flight from Nagorno-Karabakh

    In the first hour: The shootings and explosions continue to shake up and marked the domestic political week. Why are we standing here today? Reportage from the Mälardalen about the challenges of transforming our car-centric cities The center is holding a party meeting this weekend. Report on the party’s path forward – which voters will…

  • Ambassador: China Will Respond in Kind to US Chip Export Restrictions

    Ambassador: China Will Respond in Kind to US Chip Export Restrictions

    taipei – If the United States imposes more investment restrictions and export controls on China’s semiconductor industry, Beijing will respond in kind, according to China’s ambassador to the U.S., Xie Feng, whose tough talk analysts see as the latest response from a so-called wolf-warrior diplomat. Xie likened the U.S. export controls to ‘restricting their opponents…

  • Thomas Hammarberg – an angry human rights fighter on the children’s side

    Thomas Hammarberg – an angry human rights fighter on the children’s side

    Amnesty, Save the Children, the UN, Swedish Radio and the Swedish Riksdag. It is difficult to summarize 81-year-old Thomas Hammarberg’s career when he has been both a diplomat, opinion leader, activist, politician and journalist. At the same time as he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 on stage on behalf of Amnesty, he was…

  • Sixth mass extinction, silenced voices in Belarus and night festival in dark polar night

    Sixth mass extinction, silenced voices in Belarus and night festival in dark polar night

    In the shadow of the ongoing climate crisis, the sixth mass extinction is taking place on our planet. Up to a million species are threatened with extinction. How serious is the situation and why is this crisis not receiving more attention?These days, the UN summit on biodiversity, COP15, is underway, an attempt to reach an…

  • Good morning World!

    Good morning World!

    In Godmorgon the world, the Panelen, gossip by Nina Wormbs, Public Service and gossip by Mark Levengood. Here is the full content of the program: Hour 1: It freed Kherson – he hid the orphanage children Packages or money – which is better to give? Olaf Scholz’s first year as chancellor in Germany Chronicle by…

  • Dalai Lama praises Nobel Prize committee for promoting freedom, democracy

    Dalai Lama praises Nobel Prize committee for promoting freedom, democracy

    Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India]October 8 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama congratulated the winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize and said that by recognizing these laureates, the committee had thrown light on the importance of civil societies in promoting the basic human value of peace. , freedom and democracy. On Friday, the Royal Swedish…

  • Human rights defenders from former Soviet states are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

    The recipients include Memorial, an NGO banned in Russia, as well as a Belarusian activist and a Ukrainian civil society group A Belarusian human rights advocate and two civil groups from Russia and Ukraine have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday. The laureates “have for many years…

  • Ales Bialiatski, Russia Memorial, Ukraine Center for Civil Liberties Wins Nobel Peace Prize 2022

    Stockholm [Sweden]October 7 (ANI): The Royal Swedish Academy on Friday jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights defender Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties. “NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize…

  • Three share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Three share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    The Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday that three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.” The award and its $900,000 prize went equally to Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States and Morten Meldal of Denmark. For Sharpless, it is his second…

  • Three scientists win Physics Nobel for quantum information research

    Three scientists win Physics Nobel for quantum information research

    The Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday that three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for “pioneering quantum information science. The academy said Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the US and Anton Zeilinger of Austria each performed “groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave as a single…

  • The Nobel laureate in medicine discovered the Neanderthal genome

    The Nobel laureate in medicine discovered the Neanderthal genome

    This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to a Swedish researcher for decoding DNA from the Neanderthal, the extinct relative of modern humans. In a statement on Monday, the Nobel organization said Svante Paabo was being honored “for pioneering a new approach to studying our evolutionary history.” The 67-year-old Swede overcame the extreme technical…

  • See: Greta Thunberg donates prize money to the Sámi Youth Organization

    The Finnish Sámi Youth Association (SSN) said it was surprised by the news that a Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg would donate € 30,000 in prize money to the organization. The prize money comes from the prize awarded to Thunberg by the Finnish removal service company Niemi Services Oy. "I am very honored to receive…

  • Zelensky says scenes in Borodianka much more horrific than in Bucha

    Zelensky says scenes in Borodianka much more horrific than in Bucha

    The destruction left by Russian troops in the town of Borodianka outside of Kyiv is “much more horrific” than the situation uncovered in the nearby town of Bucha, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday. Earlier Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had sustained “significant losses” in Ukraine since its troops entered on February…

  • Social entrepreneur Markus Raivio has been chosen as Finland’s first Ashoka Fellow

    Social entrepreneur Markus Raivio has been chosen as Finland’s first Ashoka Fellow

    The first Finn to join an international network promoting social innovation Among other things, Raivio, who came up with ideas for cultural workshops that support the resources of mental health professionals, was chosen as a Fellow due to the systemic change he has managed to achieve in the field of mental health care in Finland.…

  • Talks with the Taliban begin in Norway

    Talks with the Taliban begin in Norway

    OSLO – A Taliban delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday began a three-day talks in Oslo with Western government officials and representatives of Afghan civil society in the midst of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The meetings behind closed doors take place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains…

  • Coronavirus updates 9.1-20.1

    Coronavirus updates 9.1-20.1

    The National Emergency Supply Agency (Nesa) has placed an order for six million rapid at-home Covid tests which are intended to be distributed to schools across the country. The procurement comes on the back of a joint mandate issued on Wednesday by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Ministry of Economic Affairs…

  • Former President Ahtisaari confirmed another positive Covid diagnosis

    Former President Ahtisaari confirmed another positive Covid diagnosis

    Former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari According to the Office of the President, the Covid test is positive for the second time. The infection was confirmed on Wednesday, December 29th. A press release said that Ahtisaari is well off the circumstances, but he is in hospital. The 84-year-old former president was diagnosed with Covid earlier…

  • Sepp Blatter – FIFA boss and World Cup fraudster

    Sepp Blatter – FIFA boss and World Cup fraudster

    He starts as a midfielder in the small town of Visp in Switzerland, and then networks up to the absolute top in sports. It is in the 70’s that the manager Joao Havelange recruits Sepp Blatter to the International Football Association – FIFA. The goal is for the ambitious Blatter to make FIFA grow, and…