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Malala will NOT win Nobel Prize: NRK

Norwegian news channel NRK has reported that Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist, will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize when it is announced at 11am today, citing its own privileged information.

Published: 11 October 2013 07:40 CEST
Malala will NOT win Nobel Prize: NRK
Malala - Amnesty International
"According to what NRK knows, the Nobel Committee has decided that Malala will not be the one receiving this year's Nobel Prize," the news station reported in a story posted on its website on Friday morning. 
 
The channel speculated that the five-strong Committee was concerned that awarding the prize to Malala risked encouraging another assassination attempt from Islamic extremists, and that, at just 16 years' old, she might be too young to cope with the weight of the prize. 
 
The 16-year-old has been far and away the most-hyped candidate to win the award, after the story of her fight for an education in the face of Islamic fundamentalism became a media sensation. 
 
She was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban on October 9 last year, after becoming the leading critic of their regressive education policies, an attack that US President Barack Obama called  "reprehensible, disgusting and tragic". 
 
Offers to treat her came from across the world, and she was eventually flown to a hospital in Birmingham, UK, where she spent nearly three months, making a full recovery. 
 
Malala herself has said she had not done enough to deserve the distinction, although she told a press conference on Thursday that winning would be "an honour". 
 

According NRK, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the UN agency which is presently working to rid Syria of chemical weapons, is a favourite. 
 

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RACISM

Norwegian MP proposes Black Lives Matter for Nobel Peace Prize

Norwegian MP Petter Eide has nominated Black Lives Matter for the Nobel Peace Prize, reportedly stating that the movement had "forced countries other than the US to face up to racism within their own societies."

Published: 30 January 2021 17:59 CET
Norwegian MP proposes Black Lives Matter for Nobel Peace Prize
A Black Lives Matter demonstration in Oslo, 2016. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB/ TT

“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Mr Eide said in his nomination papers, according to The Guardian.  

“Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice. They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice,” he added.

Founded in the United States in 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum in May 2020 after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe.

The incident fuelled protests in the United States that sped across the world.

“This movement has become one of the strongest global movements for working with racial injustice,” Petter Eide, told AFP.

“They have also been spread to many many countries, building up… awareness on the importance of fighting racial injustice,” he said.

Tens of thousands of people, including MPs and ministers from all countries, former Nobel laureates and distinguished academics, can propose candidates for the various Nobel prizes. The deadline ends on Sunday.

The Nobel prizes will be announced at the start of October. 

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