This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to imprisoned Belarusian rights activist Ares Biaryatsky, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the prize jury said on Friday. Stated.
Berrit Rais-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, said the jury will recognize “three outstanding defenders of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in neighboring countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine”. He said he wanted to honor
“Through a consistent effort to uphold human values, anti-militarism and the rule of law, this year’s laureates are Alfred Nobel’s vision of peace and fraternity among nations, the vision most needed in the world today. ‘s vision has been revived and honored,” she told reporters. Oslo.
The award follows a tradition of highlighting groups and activists who strive to prevent conflict, alleviate hardship and uphold human rights.
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Last year’s winners have faced difficult times since receiving the award. Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov and Filipino Maria Ressa are fighting for the survival of their press, defying government efforts to silence them.
They were honored last year for their “efforts to defend freedom of expression, a prerequisite for democracy and lasting peace.”
The week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on Monday, with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo winning a medical award for unlocking the secrets of Neanderthal DNA, which provides key insights into our immune systems.
On Tuesday, three scientists jointly won the physics prize: Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Crowther and Austrian Anton Seilinger, who have shown how tiny particles can connect to each other even when they are far apart. showed that it is possible to maintain This is a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, which can be used in specialized computing and information encryption.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday will more precisely target diseases such as cancer, awarded to Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless and Danish scientist Morten Meldall.
French writer Annie Ernault was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. In her book, which fearlessly delves into her experience as a working-class woman, to explore her life in France since the 1940s, the committee has combined her fiction and her praised her for amalgamating the autobiography of
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced on Monday.
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The prize will be handed out on December 10th, with a cash prize of 10 million Swedish kronor (approximately $900,000). The prize is a bequest left in 1895 by its creator, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.