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Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize laureates have included politicians, international organizations, peace movements and human rights advocates.

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Tunesien Tod der Bloggerin Lina Ben Mhenni | Beerdigung

Tunisia mourns the death of Lina Ben Mhenni

Tunisia bid farewell to Ben Mhenni, one of the voices of the Arab Spring, who died on January 27 after a long illness.
Freedom of SpeechJanuary 29, 2020
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10 2019

Does Ethiopian Nobel laureate have new enemies?

Abiy Ahmed gained detractors and frenemies by enacting measures. Yet Ethiopia remains prone to sporadic violence.
PoliticsDecember 10, 2019
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Nobel Peace Prizes for Africa over six decades

Ethiopia's prime minister is receiving this year's Nobel Peace Prize as the 10th African since 1960.
PoliticsDecember 9, 20199 images

2019 Nobel Peace Prize for Abiy a misguided choice

Ludger Schadomsky
The prestigious award goes to Ethiopia's PM this year — a well-meaning but naive decision, writes Ludger Schadomsky.
PoliticsOctober 11, 2019
Nobelpreisträger Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed: Ethiopia's first Nobel laureate

Abiy Ahmed: Lauded internationally for making peace with the neighbors, blamed for reopening ethnic conflicts at home.
ConflictsOctober 11, 2019
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize

The award, worth almost a million dollars, has been given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
SocietyOctober 11, 2019
Symbol showing a mosaic with a dove and a branch

Nobel laureates on a quest for world peace

What are the main causes of conflict? Five laureates give their views.
ConflictsSeptember 22, 2019
Heiko Maas walking with Denis Mukwege in the DRC

Heiko Maas commits to fight against sexual violence

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has made the effort to eradicate sexual violence a key theme of German foreign policy.
Human RightsSeptember 5, 2019
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad collect their prize

Murad, Mukwege accept Nobel Peace Prize

In an emotional ceremony, laureates called on the world to do more to protect victims of wartime sexual violence.
Law and JusticeDecember 10, 2018
Nadia Murad Sacharow-Preis des Europaparlaments (picture alliance / dpa)

One woman's fight against 'Islamic State'

Nadia Murad's efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon in war earned her the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
Human RightsDecember 10, 2018
Koepp Dirke Kommentarbild App

Strong signal against sexual violence

Dirke Köpp
Honoring Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad is the right thing but shows how much work still lies ahead, writes Dirke Köpp.
SocietyDecember 10, 2018
Friedensnobelpreis Denis Mukwege

Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege?

Denis Mukwege has won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping thousands of rape victims in the DR Congo.
PoliticsDecember 10, 2018
Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege (AFP/Getty Images/S. Hamed)

Mukwege: Sexual violence is not taboo

If all men would act and think like Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege, it would be a better world.
Human RightsDecember 10, 2018
Kongo Kinshasa - Krankenhaus: Panzi Hospital

AfricaLink on Air - 05 October 2018

DRC doctor Denis Mukwege wins Nobel Peace Prize +++ Cameroon youth hope for change in elections
PoliticsOctober 5, 201830:00 min
Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work against sexual violence.
SocietyOctober 5, 2018
Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa: Poland needs global solidarity

In a DW interview, former Polish President Lech Walesa warned against the path the country's leaders are taking.
PoliticsSeptember 29, 2018
Prayers at the funeral of Kofi Annan, the Ghana-born former UN chief

Ghana bids farewell to Kofi Annan

In Ghana, the youth want to emulate the distinguished son of its soil – Kofi Annan
PoliticsSeptember 13, 2018
Kofi Annan gestures at a press conference in Somalia, 1993

The battles of Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan, a superstar of global diplomacy, was a fighter for peace — and the fight was difficult.
PoliticsAugust 18, 20189 images
Kofi Annan addresses a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva

A smooth negotiator — Kofi Annan dies

Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80. For 10 years, he was at the forefront of world politics.
August 18, 2018
Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel 1928 - 2016

Auschwitz survivor's home vandalized

Romanian police have opened an inquiry into anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on the home of Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel.
CrimeAugust 5, 2018
Liu Xia

Liu Xia, wife of late China dissident, arrives in Germany

Friends of Liu Xia report she has boarded a flight to Germany after years of house arrest.
PoliticsJuly 10, 2018
US: Donald Trump in Michigan

Donald Trump, the Nobel laureate? Moon says sure

The US president hopes to meet Kim Jong Un for talks at the site where the Korean leaders held talks days ago.
PoliticsApril 30, 2018
Malala Yousafzai arriving Mingora, in the background a helicopter

Pakistan's Malala returns home amid tight security

Girl's education icon Malala visits her home town in Pakistan, where she was shot and wounded in 2012.
PoliticsMarch 31, 2018
USA Malala Yousafzai in New York

Malala returns to Pakistan six years after Taliban attack

Yousafzai was just 15 years old when she was shot in the head by militants on her way to school.
SocietyMarch 29, 2018
Donald Trump

Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination was fake

Past laureates include Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr.
SocietyFebruary 28, 2018
North Korean cheerleaders at Olympic hockey match

Nobel Peace Prize for Korean hockey team?

The governing body for the Olympic Games has said the organization has given no thought to any nomination.
SportsFebruary 13, 2018
International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) activists wearing yellow hazmat suits and holding a banner reading 'Time to go'

ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize

In Oslo, winners ICAN warned of the nuclear dangers still facing the world today.
December 10, 201702:22 min
Spanien Madrid Demonstration für Einheit Spaniens

Spotlight on Europe 13 October 2017

What next? Catalonia suspends bid for independence from Spain+++ Greece passes sex change law
PoliticsOctober 13, 201729:59 min
Symbolbild EU-Erweiterung

Inside Europe 12.10.2017

On today's programme: Catalonia suspends its declaration of independence but the clock is still ticking – The view from Madrid - Living up to the Nobel Peace Prize - A forgotten hero who staved off nuclear Armageddon - Safeguarding the children of the mafia and breaking the vicious cycle of crime in southern Italy.
PoliticsOctober 13, 201754:59 min
Friedensnobelpreis 2017 ICAN Beatrice Fihn (M) Direktorin

Inside Europe: Living up to the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize usually gets a lot of attention and sometimes fierce criticism. The Norwegian Nobel Committee doesn’t always get it right. So how do you avoid giving the most coveted peace prize there is to people who later might prove not worthy of it? Lars Bevanger has been finding out in Oslo.
PoliticsOctober 13, 201705:04 min
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@dwnews - Nobel Peace Prize: Why the ICAN?

SocietyOctober 7, 201704:03 min
Kenia Präsidentschaftswahl Proteste in Nairobi

AfricaLink on Air - 06 October 2017

Kenyan police fire teargas protestors+++Uganda National Council of Sports says it will confiscate passports of athletes
PoliticsOctober 6, 201729:54 min
Martin Muno

Nobel Peace Prize - the right decision

Martin Muno
Awarding the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to anti-nuclear weapons group ICAN is the right decision at the right time.
SocietyOctober 6, 2017
ICAN Germany protest

Nobel Prize winner ICAN Germany says work 'under the radar'

ICAN Germany spokesperson Anne Balzer said the award is an honor — and a slap in the face for Washington.
PoliticsOctober 6, 2017
ICAN logo

What is ICAN?

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, but what does it do?
PoliticsOctober 6, 2017
A plate of the NGO International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The Swedish Academy awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN. DW tells you about the organization and what they do.
PoliticsOctober 6, 20175 images
ICAN executive Beatrice Fihn (M) holding banner

Nobel Peace Prize 2017 goes to ICAN

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
SocietyOctober 6, 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leasder Yaser Arafat, the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994, in Olso

Nobel Peace Prize - the controversial winners

Why did they receive a Nobel Peace Prize? It's a question asked almost every year in Oslo.
SocietyOctober 6, 201712 images
Sir Winston Churchill

Controversies that have dogged the Nobel for Literature

This year's pick definitely wasn't as controversial as last year's. Here are laureates that have caused a stir.
LiteratureOctober 5, 2017
FARC commanders Ivan Marquez (L) and Carlos Lozada speak at a press conference in Bogota launching a political party in Bogota.

Colombia's FARC to launch political party

As part of last year's peace deal, FARC rebels are set to launch a political party and use 'words as the only weapon.'
PoliticsJuly 25, 2017
Liu Xia, wife of deceased Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo and other relatives attend his sea burial off the coast of Dalian, China in this photo released by Shenyang Municipal Information Office

Liu Xiaobo buried at sea

The ashes of Liu Xiaobo have been buried at sea depriving supporters of a future rallying point.
Human RightsJuly 15, 2017
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Liu Xiaobo, critic of China's Communist Party, dead after years in prison

July 14, 201700:30 min
Bilsky Philipp Kommentarbild App

Opinion: The other China

Philipp Bilsky
Beijing's efforts to polish its image are not enough - the death of Liu Xiaobo shows a different side of China.
PoliticsJuly 13, 2017
Liu's empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo

Liu Xiaobo, a dissident 'without enemies'

An important critic of China's Communist Party - and symbol of peaceful protest - has died.
PoliticsJuly 13, 2017
Liu Xiaobo

Tributes pour in after death of Liu Xiaobo

China's most prominent political dissident Liu Xiaobo has died after a battle with liver cancer.
PoliticsJuly 13, 2017
A likeness of Liu

Liu Xiaobo: Angela Merkel calls for 'humanity'

China's government won't allow the Nobel laureate to be treated abroad.
PoliticsJuly 10, 2017
Nobelpreisträger Liu Xiaobo

US, German docs: Liu can leave China for care

The opinion of the foreign doctors contradicts the assertions of Chinese ones.
HealthJuly 9, 2017
Friedensnobelpreis 2010 für Liu Xiaobo

'Liu Xiaobo's family can visit him'

DW spoke with Liu's lawyer Mo Shaoping about the Nobel laureate's condition and whether his family could visit him.
PoliticsJune 26, 2017
A protester holds a sign that reads: "Free Liu Xiaobo"

China releases Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo

The human rights defender and pro-democracy activist was jailed in 2008 for "inciting subversion of state power."
Law and JusticeJune 26, 2017
Ecuador Kolumbiens Friedensgespräche mit der ELN

Colombia and ELN rebels start peace talks

Colombia and the nation's second-largest rebel group started peace talks in order to formally end the civil war.
PoliticsFebruary 8, 2017