Nobel peace prize 2022

• 7 October 2022 (announcement by • 10 December 2022 (ceremony) Location Presented by Reward(s) 9.0 million First awarded 1901 Website ← · · The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy. Reactions [ ] In Candidates [ ] Prior to his 2022 Ales Bialiatski's Nobel Peace Prize, he was nominated five times unsuccessfully. Nominations confirmed by the various News Agencies Nominee Country Motivations Nominator(s) Source Individuals "for her advocacy for women's rights in Iran" "in honor of his unparalleled contributions to the pursuit of peace, and his immense personal sacrifices to promote peace for all" • • "[with "for his heroic efforts to rescue homeless orphans in Transylvania, providing them food, housing, and education through the Saint Francis Foundation's homes and shelters" "[with "in recognition of his merits and of his long-standing attempts by the Crimean Tatars to solve problems peacefully." "for his efforts to help solve the climate crisis as well as his work towards peace and reconciliation" "for his work defending human rights, including hi...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has named jailed human rights advocate from Belarus, Ales Bialiatski, and two human rights organisations from Russia and Ukraine – namely, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties – as the The human rights champions were recognised for an “outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power”, the Committee said in a Here is what to know about the winners: Ales Bialiatski • Bialiatski, 60, has been leading a pro-democracy movement in Belarus since the mid-1980s. • In 1996, he founded Belarus’s most prominent human rights organisation, Viasna, following controversial constitutional changes by longtime President Alexander Lukashenko. • Through Viasna, which translates to “Spring”, Bialiatski provided support to jailed demonstrators and their families, while he also documented authorities’ use of torture. • In August 2011, he was handed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for tax evasion in a move widely seen as politically motivated in the wake of an earlier presidential election claimed by Lukashenko. • In 2020, as Belarus saw • Bialiatski was arrested again in 2021 on tax evasion charges, a move that Lukashenko’s critics described as a tactic to silence his work. • “This is the best person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize because for many years, Bialiatski became the symbol of the global fight against tyranny and for the rights of ordinary people, of Belarussians,” Franak Viacorka, a Belarusian opposition poli...

GENEVA (8 June 2023) – A UN human rights expert today urged Russia to drop criminal charges against Oleg Orlov, a prominent human rights defender and one of the leaders of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation “Memorial”. Orlov is scheduled to appear before a Moscow court on 8 June on charges of “public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. “Show trials of prominent figures, such as Orlov, are aimed at instilling fear, deterring the public from participating in peaceful protests and preventing people from voicing dissent,” said the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova. “In pursuing criminal charges against Oleg Orlov, the Russian authorities have turned the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on its head, criminalising public advocacy for peace and attempting to silence the voices of human rights defenders,” she said. Oleg Orlov is one of Russia’s most prominent human rights defenders and co-chair of the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial. Last year Memorial won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Special Rapporteur noted that the criminal charges against him carry a potential prison sentence of up to three years and are a direct result of Mr. Orlov’s condemnation of the armed attack by the Russian Federation on Ukraine. “Orlov’s prosecution is part of a system-wide crackdown on the anti-war movement in the Russian Federation,” Katzarova said. She remi...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - One of Russia's longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners went on trial on Thursday, facing the prospect of three years in jail if convicted of repeatedly discrediting Russia's armed forces, his organisation said. Oleg Orlov has since 1999 been one of the leaders of Memorial, which won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 a year after being banned and dissolved in Russia. Since sending its tanks into Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has intensified a long-running clampdown on all forms of political dissent and made it an offence to discredit the armed forces or deviate from government accounts of what it calls a "special military operation". Sentences range up to 15 years in jail, although comments deemed to constitute treason, such as those for which opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in April, can be punished by life imprisonment. Orlov, who came to prominence by opposing Soviet totalitarianism, told the independent Moscow Times last month that campaigners like him were to some extent following the path of anti-communist dissidents of the Cold War era. "The state is again totalitarian," he said. Orlov had already been fined for holding anti-war banners in public. The new charges are based on an article he wrote denouncing Russia for waging the conflict. "In my article I spoke about the terrible role that war plays for the development of the political regime in our country," he told the court, according to a Memor...

A new Combined, nuclear-armed nations spent $82.9 billion on their arsenals last year, according to ICAN. The United States was the biggest spender, dumping $43.7 billion into its already massive arsenal in 2022—more than all of the other nuclear-armed countries combined. "The U.S. Congress allocated $16 billion for the [National Nuclear Security Administration] in 2022 to spend on weapons activities," ICAN's report notes. "In 2022, the Department of Defense requested $27.7 billion for 'nuclear modernization,' including the 'Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, B-21 Bomber, Columbia class submarine, and Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications.'" Overall, the report shows global spending on nuclear weapons increased for the third consecutive year in 2022. ICAN describes such spending as immensely wasteful and dangerous to global safety, rejecting commonplace claims that investments in nuclear weapons—particularly as a tool of deterrence—are essential to security. "Through an ever-changing and challenging security environment, from security threats of climate change to the Covid-19 pandemic to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, nuclear weapons spending has steadily increased, with no resulting measurable improvement on the security environment," the report states. "If anything, the situation is getting worse." "Luck, not reason or strategy, has kept nuclear weapons from being used in warfare for the past 78 years. But we can't count on our luck to hold in perpetuity." ICAN arg...

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