Results for nobel peace prize

Nelson Mandela was a political leader and activist who directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to dismantle the country's apartheid system. #BlackHistoryMonth 

In 2004, Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. A Kenyan author and activist, Maathai founded @GreenBeltMovmnt  to help rural women in Kenya both improve their livelihoods and make their communities greener. #BlackHistoryMonth 

N.J. school district to name auditorium after alumna nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

During the Battle of Solfierno Henry Dunant was shocked to see thousands of dead and wounded left on the field after just one day of fighting. His experience spurred him to form the @ICRC  #OTD  in 1863. Both Dunant and the Red Cross went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s armed forces, seized power on 1 February, ousting the country’s government over allegations of fraud in recent elections and later arresting its leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi.

From world adulation to condemnation, journey of a Nobel peace prize winner #TheLongStory 

Two-thirds of Canadians support the nomination of the Black Lives Matter movement for a Nobel Peace Prize, and 60 per cent believe the movement should win the award. Read more:

Stacey Abrams@staceyabrams () is a voting rights activist, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and a prime example of how leading “from the outside” can still achieve lasting change.

Dr. Bernard Lown, Lewiston High grad who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday at age 99.

Dr Bernard Lown, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 99