Chicago: Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more willing to talk and young people are encouraged to get involved, Nobel Peace Prize winners said on Monday at their annual meeting. Former US President Jimmy Carter and ex-presidents Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union and Lech Walesa of Poland were among the Peace Prize winners in...
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Yangon: Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi might stand for parliament in an upcoming by-election after her party re-registers itself to enter politics, a party spokesman said. Suu Kyi has been blocked from politics and detained for long stretches of time since returning to her homeland from abroad in 1988. But after holding the first election in 20 years last November, Myanmar's military nominally handed power in March to...
11:47 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Oslo: The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." "I am very very happy about this prize," said Karman, a...
02:39 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Yangon: For the first time in nearly a decade, Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her birthday in freedom on Sunday, with supporters freeing symbolic caged birds as more than 50 state security agents watched from across the street. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate turned 66, and received one gift at Yangon's international airport - the arrival of her youngest son, Kim Aris, who lives in Britain and...
09:06 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Guwahati: Archbishop of Guwahati Thomas Menamparampil has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his initiatives to bring peace among ethnic communities of the North East. The Archbishop's name has been nominated by a popular Italian magazine 'Il Bollettino Salesiano' which also published a four-page story on Menamparampil in its June edition titled 'A Bishop for Nobel Prize'. "I had not expected the nomination, but was overwhelmed...
01:29 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Oslo: Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday that the 2011 field includes 53 organisations and tops last year's 237 nominees. Known nominees also include Afghan rights advocate Sima Samar, the European Union, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Russian rights group Memorial...
10:57 AM, Mar 02, 2011
Dhaka: Eminent people from across the world have formed "Friends of Grameen", vowing to protect the micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from "politically orchestrated" attacks. Over 50 charities and public figures, including former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, former chief justice of India JS Verma and French-born American actress Yeardley Smith have joined hands to form the voluntary body. Former Irish president Mary Robinson has also joined the...
04:18 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Prof Mohammad Yunus, founder of the pioneering microcredit institution 'Grameen Bank', thwarted the allegations of fraud against him. ...
10:58 AM, Feb 17, 2011
Oslo, Norway: A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying that its disclosures of classified documents promote world peace by holding governments accountable for their actions. The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps candidates secret for 50 years, but those with nomination rights sometimes make their picks known. Snorre Valen, a 26-year-old legislator from Norway's Socialist Left Party, told The Associated Press he handed in his nomination...
11:38 AM, Feb 03, 2011
Beijing: The wife of China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was able to leave house arrest for a family meal while President Hu Jintao was visiting the United States last week but she is still unable to visit her husband in jail, a rights group said today. It was the first known time that Liu Xia has been able to leave house arrest since October, shortly after her...
07:17 PM, Jan 28, 2011
China heavy handed tactics to keep news about Liu Xiaobo out of public sight before the ceremony at Oslo is a measure to silence dissidents. ...
12:26 PM, Dec 11, 2010
In Beijing, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia remains under house arrest. ...
09:50 AM, Dec 11, 2010
New Delhi: The pitch for the release of Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has gathered fresh momentum with more than 500 high-profile literary signatories from around the world joining ranks with the Internationales Literaturfestival-Berlin. The litterateurs who have joined the crusade against Xiaobo's detention include the likes of John Ashbery, Wolf Biermann, Breyten Breytenbach, Hans Christoph Buch, Judith Butler, J.M. Coetzee, Dave Eggers, Elfriede Jelinek, Herta Müller, Salman Rushdie...
07:30 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Oslo (Norway): An imprisoned Chinese dissident was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway Friday as groups of protesters gathered outside the Norwegian Embassy and United Nations offices in Beijing. China has responded furiously since the Nobel committee announced on October 8 that Liu Xiaobo would be its peace prize winner. Officials have repeatedly called Liu a common criminal and declared the award a Western plot against China. Liu, a...
05:50 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New York: Poetry by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is coming out in the US. Graywolf Press announced that "June Fourth Elegies" will be published in 2012. It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored an appeal for human rights and political reform. The title...
05:18 PM, Dec 10, 2010
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