Nobel Peace Prize

What is the purpose of awarding the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize is awarded to honour individuals and groups that have made outstanding contributions to humanity in various fields, including physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences.

Machado's Nobel Prize puts Venezuela and US policy in the spotlight

Inside Venezuela, the picture remains grim.

Nobel Peace Prize: The politics of peace, sponsored by the powerful

Putin, not usually known for his love of peaceful resolutions, praised Trump for “doing a lot to resolve complex crises”

Will Trump’s fast-track and transactional diplomacy lead to Nobel Peace Prize?

The Alaska talks underline both the appeal and the risk of Trump’s approach.

The bloody legacy of Henry Kissinger

Kissinger remains an influential thinker in geopolitics who has deeply shaped US foreign policy but his legacy is indeed bloody.

Ensuring child rights: Social protection schemes are crucial

Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian social reformer who  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai in 2014, talks to the The Daily Star about the global child rights situation during his visit to Bangladesh on January 14-18.

Meet Greta Thunberg, the climate change warrior

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated three Norwegian lawmakers for the Nobel Peace Prize for her prominent voice in campaigns against climate change.

Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Award goes to two anti-rape activists

Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.

Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize: committee

The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.

March 14, 2019
March 14, 2019

Meet Greta Thunberg, the climate change warrior

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated three Norwegian lawmakers for the Nobel Peace Prize for her prominent voice in campaigns against climate change.

October 6, 2018
October 6, 2018

Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Award goes to two anti-rape activists

Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.

August 29, 2018
August 29, 2018

Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize: committee

The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.

March 2, 2018
March 2, 2018

Person using stolen identity nominates Trump for Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, says someone using a stolen identity has nominated US President Donald Trump for the award, the Norwegian news agency says.

January 25, 2016
January 25, 2016

Hero of Egypt's uprising feels rejected five years on

In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets.

September 18, 2015
September 18, 2015

Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.

August 21, 2015
August 21, 2015

Malala celebrates string of top GCSEs

Girls' education campaigner and winner of Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai, who now attends Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, gains a string of As and A*s in her GCSEs.

June 4, 2015
June 4, 2015

“Let us respect our children”

On June 1, Indian Nobel Peace Laureate and child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi sat down for an exclusive interview with Mahfuz Anam, Editor of The Daily Star.

April 10, 2015
April 10, 2015

NASA astronomer names asteroid after Malala

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, the Malala Fund announced Wednesday, reports mashable.com.