The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had received 305 nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the lowest number in four years. Among those nominations are 212 individuals and 93 organizations.
It is standard procedure for the names to not be released. Nominations had to be submitted before the February 1 deadline. “Who nominates, and who is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is a secret for 50 years,” the board in Oslo said in a statement.
In 2022, the Committee in Oslo saw 343 submissions. “For eight years in a row the number of candidates has been exceeding 300. The current record of 376 candidates was reached in 2016,” the committee statement said.
The winner is to be announced in early October. The prize will then be presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who founded the prizes.
In 2022, human rights activists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is said to have been nominated?
Many of the names publicly disclosed until now were involved in the war in Ukraine or included opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was nominated himself in 2021.
Among them are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg as well as a Ukrainian group working to establish an international war crimes tribunal.
Others said to have been nominated are jailed Putin opponents such as activist Alexei Navalny, journalist and political activist Kara-Murza and the pro-democracy youth movement Vesna.
Iranian women’s activist Masih Alinejad and her anti-hijab movement My Stealthy Freedom are also rumored to be nominated.
Also believed to be on the list of submissions are Chinese and Hong Kong pro-democracy activists such as Chow Hang-tung, Peng Lifa and the group Uyghur Tribunal. Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun and the anti-junta coalition NUCC are said to be part of the nominations, too.
Maggie Gobran, an activist helping the poor in Cairo’s slums, is said to be another candidate.
Climate activists Greta Thurnberg from Sweden and Vanessa Nakate from Uganda are said to have been nominated this year, too.
los/xx (AFP, AP)
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