Jimmy Carter, former US President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100
Updated: 11:15pm (AEDT) Washington DC, US Reuters Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US President struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, […]
Nuclear weapons must never be used, Nagasaki survivor tells Putin before Nobel ceremony
Oslo, Norway Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on Monday, on the eve of his Japanese survivors’ group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Terumi Tanaka was referring to threats made by Putin and other senior Russian […]
Ongoing impacts: Discrimination still haunts Japan’s Nobel-winning atomic bomb survivors
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In Hiroshima, Nobel Prize brings survivors hope, sense of duty
Hiroshima, Japan Reuters Almost eight decades after an atomic bomb devastated her home town of Hiroshima, Teruko Yahata carries the scar on her forehead from when she was knocked over by the force of the blast. The US bombs that laid waste to Hiroshima on the morning of 6th August, 1945, and to Nagasaki three […]
Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising risk of nuclear war
Tokyo, Japan Reuters Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons. Atomic bomb survivors and members of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, including Assistant Secretary General […]
Nobel Prize is a warning to a world on the nuclear brink
London, UK Reuters The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects a widely held fear that the planet has never been closer to nuclear war. Within the past few weeks, Russia has lowered its threshold for the use of nuclear weapons and warned […]
Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo, Norway/Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them. Many survivors of the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, who are […]
Russia jails rights campaigner from Nobel prize-winning group
Moscow, Russia Reuters Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday for “discrediting the armed forces” by protesting against the war in Ukraine and accusing President Vladimir Putin of leading a descent into fascism. Orlov, a leader of the rights group Memorial that won a share of the […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner says Iranian people will prevail against rulers
Oslo, Norway Reuters The Iranian people will ultimately overcome authoritarianism imposed by a government that has lost legitimacy and public support, Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said from prison in a speech read by her children on Sunday. The Norwegian Nobel committee in October awarded the prize to Mohammadi, 51, for her non-violent fight […]
Children of Iran Nobel Peace Prize winner fear they won’t see her again
Oslo, Norway Reuters The teenage children of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi fear they will never meet their mother again, but said they were proud of her struggle for women’s rights as they prepared to accept the award on her behalf on Sunday. Mohammadi, 51, who is serving multiple sentences in Tehran’s […]