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Record 241 Nominations Made for Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway -- A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner, the panel's spokesman said Tuesday. Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, secret-spilling organization WikiLeaks and Cuban dissidents are among...

POLL: Should WikiLeaks Get the Nobel Peace Prize?

Heroes or villains? The whistle-blower group WikiLeaks has been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A 26-year-old Norwegian lawmaker says that Julian Assange's outfit has provided an invaluable service to the world for exposing "corruption, war crimes and torture," The Washington Post reported. Given that...

Nancy Pelosi: Free Liu Xiaobo

On the stage before us was an empty chair. Blue and white, it has been filled by great champions of peace and justice, nonviolence and human rights: Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Mother Teresa and Elie Wiesel; His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. But, on this day, the chair was...

After Nobel, China Snubs Norway, but Not Norwegian Oil

(Dec. 13) -- After the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Beijing cracked down on human rights activists at home and lashed out at Norway and the West in general as "clowns" conspiring in "an anti-China farce." China suspended trade talks with Norway, canceled...

Nobel Yields Protests and a Single Empty Chair

(Dec. 10) -- Pro-democracy rallies from Hong Kong to Scandinavia, Chinese media censors clamping down on news of the country's most famous prisoner, and a single empty chair in Oslo -- all iconic images from today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway. It's the first time since 1935 that the award hasn't been handed to...

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Support the Candidate Who Spent 40 Days in Jail

I'm asking you to support a candidate, Norman Solomon, who has spent 40 days in jail.

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Nobel Laureates, Students Defend Human Rights In Chicago

I spent yesterday morning in the library of Chicago's Lincoln Park High School, listening to students talk about what the word "hero" means to them.

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Kerry Kennedy: In Chicago: Nobel Laureates and Students Defending Human Rights, One Step at a Time

I spent yesterday morning in the library of Chicago's Lincoln Park High School, listening to students talk about what the word "hero" means to them.

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05/23/12 Law graduates urged to remain committed to cause of... Source: Sify "We have changed the global landscape by chasing criminals and putting them on trial where they meet the hands of justice and the eyes of their victims," O'Brien told the graduates.
05/22/12 Support the Candidate Who Spent 40 Days in Jail Source: The Huffington Post I'm asking you to support a candidate, Norman Solomon, who has spent 40 days in jail.
05/17/12 Oscar Arias Sanchez, Nobel Laureate, to Speak at... Source: PR Newswire MINNEAPOLIS , May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez , former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, will be the keynote speaker at Walden University 's 48th Commencement on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 , in Minneapolis .
05/03/12 Mysteries of Oslo Source: American Enterprise Institute (AEI) The Nobel Peace Prize is the world's most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history.
05/03/12 Nobel Laureates and Students Discuss Role of Women in... Source: IPS Inter Press Service Last week, in a lecture hall at the University of Illinois Chicago, 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi took a reality many of us working in human rights know well, and drove it home with a story from her own nation, a land her government says she is no longer allowed to call home.

Background on Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Swedish: ') is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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