Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 […]
