{"id":16770,"date":"2022-10-07T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-one-person-and-two-organizations-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T09:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:32:29","slug":"nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-one-person-and-two-organizations-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-one-person-and-two-organizations-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Prize goes to one person and two organizations – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– The award winners represent civil society in their home countries. For many years, they have stood up for the right to criticize power and basic rights for citizens. . That’s what the Nobel Committee’s leader Berit Reiss-Andersen said when she announced who would receive the prize. Byalyatski has fought for over 30 years for human rights and democratic development in Belarus. He is the leader of the human rights organization Vjasna. and is in prison. Ales Byalyatski Belarusian writer and human rights activist. Educated at the Homiel University of Belarus (history and philology), as well as at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences (literature). Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 Born in Vjartsilia in Russian Karelia in 1962 Active in human rights work in the former Soviet Republic of Belarus since the 1980s Leader of the human rights organization Vyasna, which he founded in 1996 Currently in prison in Belarus without a sentence. He has been imprisoned a number of times, including from 2011-2014. Has won several awards, including the Swedish Per Anger Prize in 2006 and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Sakharov Freedom Prize in the same year. Married to Natalja Pintsjuk and has a son, Adam. Memorial is nationwide in Russia. This is the oldest and best-known human rights organization in the country. The organization was founded by, among others, Andrej Sakharov in the late 1980s. Human rights organization Memorial Russian human rights organization Founded in 1987 by human rights activists in the former Soviet Union Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and human rights advocate Svetlana Gannushkina were among the founders. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Memorial developed into the largest human rights organization in Russia. Has established a documentation center on the victims of the Stalin era, and collected and systematized information about political repression and violations of human rights in Russia. During the Chechen wars, Memorial collected and verified information about abuses and war crimes committed by Russian and pro-Russian forces against the civilian population. The head of Memorial’s branch in Chechnya, Natalja Estemirova, was killed in 2009 as a result of this work. In December 2021, the Russian authorities decided that the Memorial should be disbanded by force and the documentation center closed for good Source: The Nobel Committee The Center for Civil Rights has documented war crimes and human rights violations since 2014 and has pressed for international accountability for war crimes and for Ukraine shall join the International Criminal Court. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) is a think tank founded by V\u00e1clav Klaus Jr in January 2007 in Kyiv with the aim of strengthening human rights and democracy in Ukraine. The organization will strengthen Ukrainian civil society and pressure the authorities to make Ukraine a full-fledged democracy. In order to develop Ukraine into a state governed by the rule of law, the Center for Civil Liberties has actively advocated for Ukraine to be associated with the International Criminal Court. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Center for Civil Liberties has engaged in efforts to identify and document Russian war crimes against the Ukrainian civilian population. In collaboration with international partners, the center plays a leading role in holding the guilty accountable for their crimes. Source: The Nobel Committee – With this year’s peace prize to Ales Byalyatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighboring countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, said Reiss-Andersen. – Through their consistent support for humanist values, anti-militarism and legal principles, this year’s prize winners have revitalized and honored Alfred Nobel’s vision of peace and the fraternization of peoples – a vision our world needs more than ever, she continued. The awarding of the prize itself will take place on the day of Alfred Nobel’s death, 10 December. BEHIND LOCK AND LOCK 3: Ales Byaljatski is one of the veterans of the democracy struggle in Belarus. Now he is in prison again. Photo: VIKTOR DRACHEV \/ Afp Imprisoned Ales Byaljatski is imprisoned in Belarus. He has been arrested more than twenty times. 14 July 2021 was the last time he was imprisoned, according to the authorities for tax fraud – Reiss-Andersen now hopes that the prize award can help to get him released. Although she is not very optimistic. – Our message is a call to the authorities in Belarus to release Mr. Byalyatski, and we hope that it can happen so that he can come to Oslo and receive this honor. But there are thousands of political prisoners in Belarus, and I am afraid that perhaps my wish is not very realistic. But I encourage him to be released, she says. – They have protected the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental right of citizens. 343 candidates This year there were 343 candidates who were proposed for this year’s peace prize. It is the second highest number in the history of the peace prize. 251 of those proposed were individuals, 92 organisations. Last year, the award went to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitrij Muratov. Both have been threatened and harassed in the year since receiving the award. Maria Ressa has been convicted of defamation and has been told to close her website Rappler, without following the order. Muratov’s newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. Since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 102 times, to 134 recipients: 91 men, 18 women and 25 organisations. Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009 Photo: Heiko Junge \/ NTB scanpix 2021: Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitrij Muratov for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia respectively. 2020: The World Food Program (WFP) for its efforts in the fight against hunger, for its contributions to creating conditions for peace in conflict-prone areas and for being a driving force in the work against the use of hunger as a weapon in war and conflict. 2019: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his contribution to creating peace with neighboring Eritrea, contributing to reconciliation processes in neighboring countries and the will to build up democracy in his home country. 2018: Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for “work against sexualized violence used as a weapon in war and armed conflict.” 2017: ICAN for “work to highlight the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its pioneering efforts to achieve a treaty ban on such weapons.” 2016: Juan Manuel Santos for “his tenacious efforts to end the more than 50-year-long civil war in the country, a war that has cost at least 220,000 Colombians their lives and displaced close to six million inhabitants.” 2015: The Tunisian Quartet for National Dialogue for their “decisive contribution to the construction of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” 2014: Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their “fight against the oppression of children and youth and for all children’s right to education.” 2013: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for “the organization’s major efforts to eradicate chemical weapons.” 2012: The European Union because “for more than six decades, the Union and its predecessors have contributed to promoting peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.” 2011: Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman for their “non-violent struggle for women’s safety and their right to full participation in peace-building work”. 2010: Liu Xiaobo for his “long non-violent struggle for human rights in China”. 2009: Barack Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and people-to-people interaction”
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