(CNN Español) – The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo for his efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
We tell you everything you need to know about this award.
- The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 104 times from 1901 to 2023, and there have been 141 winners. Official site Nobel Prize.
- The Peace Medal bears the Latin inscription: “Pro pace et fraternitate gentium”, which translates to “For peace and brotherhood of men”.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is usually awarded at its own ceremony in Oslo, Norway. It was not provided for some years. The latest case was in 1972.
According to Official site According to the organization, from 1901 to 2020, Nobel Prizes and Prizes in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 57 times. Among them, 17 women won the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the list:
2023- Nargis Mohammadi
2021- Maria Ressa
2018 – Nadia Murad
2014 – Malala Yousafzai
2011 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011 – Leymah Gbowee
2011 – Tavakol Karman
2004 – Wangari will not close
2003 – Ebadi project
1997 – Jody Williams
1992 – Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi
1982 – Alva Myrtle
1979 – Mother Teresa
1976 – Betty Williams
1976 –Margaret Corrigan
1946 – Emily Green Balch
1931 – Jane Addams
1905 – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinski von Sinick and Tetteau
- Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring peace to Colombia after more than 50 years of conflict.
- Guatemalan Ricoberta Mensu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation.
- Óscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his work on peace in Central America
- Mexican Alfonso García Robles was awarded in 1982 along with Swede Alva Myrtle for his work in the United Nations disarmament negotiations.
- Argentina’s Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1980, founded nonviolent human rights organizations to fight against the military regime ruling his Argentina.
- Carlos Saavetra Llamas, who was Argentina’s foreign minister, received the award in 1936 for mediating a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia.
- Two laureates have declined the award in its entire history. One of them, for peace, was Le Duc Tho, who was to accompany US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to negotiate the Vietnam Peace Accords in 1973. Le Duc Tho said he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam.
- Three Nobel laureates were detained as they were about to present the prize: German pacifist and journalist Karl von Ositzky; Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
- Posthumous Nobel Prizes: Since 1974, the Nobel Foundation’s statutes have determined that a prize cannot be awarded posthumously unless death occurs after the prize is announced. Before 1974, the Nobel Prize was awarded posthumously only twice, one of them to Dag Hammarskjold (Nobel Peace Prize 1961).
- The youngest Nobel laureate is Malala Yousafzai, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.
Source: Nobel Prize
