Ales Bialiatski, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been sentenced by Belarus to 10 years in prison, on charges that rights advocates have dismissed as politically motivated.
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Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.
Rights Advocates Honored at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
The three recipients of this year’s Peace Prize emphasized the urgency of fighting today’s authoritarian states to secure human rights and democracy.
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Fall is the perfect time to hunker down and read deeply.
Memorial Shed Light on Russia’s Past and Current Repressions
Members of the group have paid for their work with their lives and their freedom.
In Ukraine, Sharing the Nobel Peace Prize Prompts Backlash
Some saw the decision to group a Ukrainian organization with human rights defenders from Russia and Belarus — two of the country’s aggressors — as an affront.
In Ukraine, the sharing of the prize prompts some backlash.
Some saw the decision to group a Ukrainian organization with human rights defenders from Russia and Belarus — two of the country’s aggressors — as an affront.
Who Is Ales Bialiatski, the Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
Ales Bialiatski was part of a dissident group that helped lay the groundwork in the late Soviet period for a movement calling for the independence of Belarus.
Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties Among 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Winners
While the invasion added greater urgency to their work, the group has been tracking disappearances and war crimes for years.
Memorial, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Has Been Targeted by Putin in Russia
The organization “is based on the notion that confronting past crimes is essential in preventing new ones,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.