Iranian Narges Mohammadi is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for being a human rights activist. The announcement was made today, October 6, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Narges is a journalist and is considered the female voice of Iran, for fighting against the oppression of the regime in her country. She is currently in prison.
According to Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Nobel Committee, Narges Mohammadi is a defender of human rights and a person who fights for freedom.
"We want to support your courageous fight and recognize thousands of people who spoke out against the theocratic regime of repression and discrimination that targets women in Iran," said the president.
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Nobel Prize of Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize awards people who are involved in social issues and, especially, in the movement for world peace. This award is granted by a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget).
Some of the most famous Nobel Peace Prize winners were:
Martin Luther King Jr. (1964), which fought racial inequality,
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1979): helped care for the poor and sick;
Nelson Mandela (1993): worked towards the peaceful end of the Apartheid regime and established the foundations for a new democratic South Africa;
Malala Yousafzai (2014): fought against the repression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
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What are Human Rights?
Second This article, Human Rights are a category of basic rights guaranteed to each and every human being, regardless of social class, race, nationality, religion, culture, profession, gender, sexual orientation or any other possible variant that can differentiate beings humans.
See below a video lesson on Human Rights
Nobel Prize of Peace
The Nobel Prize is a worldwide recognition, organized by the foundation of the same name and awarded every year by institutions Swedish and Norwegian authorities to people or organizations that carried out, in the previous year, research and discoveries beneficial to humanity.
The Nobel Prize ceremony takes place every year on December 10th, in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway. The personalities who win the award become notable in the world in their areas of activity.
Check out the five categories into which the Nobel Prize is divided:
Chemical
Physical
Medicine
Literature
Peace
Learn more about the Nobel Prize
*With information from Agência Brasil
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By Silvia Tancredi
Journalist
