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eileen@despora.de

JUST IN: Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Former President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after a leading supporter in Congress acknowledged his work to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East would still be making progress if it weren’t for the setbacks under President Joe Biden.

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faab64@diasp.org

"The Norwegian #Nobel committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel peace prize to #NargesMohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in #Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the committee said in its citation.

As much as I like and respect her, I honestly don't think she was the best candidate for the prize. Nasrin Sotudeh the lawyer and human rights activist would have been a much more worthy of the prize, but sadly the mod in the west is just focus on women in Iran and not the advocate who has lost almost everything in her fight against juvenile cases and #DeathPenalty against them and others.

Unfortunately #NasrinSotuddh is not in line with the propaganda of the west against #Iran and her tireless fight doesn't have the popularity of the one fighting for women's rights.

Any way, I am so happy for her to win this prize and I hope it doesn't change her into yet another pawn in the selective human rights concerns of naive public and charlatans like Alinejad and Pahlavi.

#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize #WomensRights #Politics #Acrivism

escheche@diasp.org

Latin America rallies behind Julian Assange

https://mondediplo.com/2023/02/03latin-america-assange

While successive #US administrations and their intelligence agencies have threatened #Assange financially, physically and legally over the past 13 years, nine #LatinAmerican-heads-of-state are demanding his #release. They include #XiomaraCastro-Honduras, #AndrésManuelLópezObrador-Mexico, #DanielOrtega-Nicaragua, #MiguelDíaz-Canel-Cuba, #NicolásMaduro-Venezuela, #GustavoPetro-Colombia, #LuisArce-Bolivia, #AlbertoFernández-Argentina and #LuizInácioLuladaSilva-Brazil. #Lula has even suggested that Assange should be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for having ‘shed light on the shady dealings of the #CIA,' while Mexico’s #Obrador has offered Assange #asylum and #protection.

#latinamerica #southamerica #julianassange #wikileaks #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange

faab64@diasp.org

The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to two human rights groups, the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine and Memorial in Russia, as well as imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised their work criticizing power and protecting fundamental human rights in neighboring countries torn apart by war. We speak to Anna Dobrovolskaya, who served as executive director of Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, part of the Nobel-winning group Memorial, before it was shut down by the Russian government. “People can see this as a common victory for civil society, not just in Russia,” says Dobrovolskaya. We also speak with Ole von Uexküll, executive director of the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Award Foundation; all of Friday’s Nobel winners are also previous Right Livelihood laureates, known informally as the “alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” The hope of these international awards is that Belarus will “immediately release Ales Bialiatski” and that Russia will stop their legal persecution of human rights organizations, says von Uexküll.
#Russia #Ukraine #Belarus #NobelPeacePrize

dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

Anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90

Desmond Tutu, the cleric and social activist who was a giant of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.

Tutu, described by foreign observers and his countrymen as the moral conscience of his nation, died in Cape Town on Boxing Day.

“The passing of archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” president Cyril Ramaphosa said.

“From the pavements of resistance in South Africa to the pulpits of the world’s great cathedrals and places of worship, and the prestigious setting of the Nobel peace prize ceremony, the Arch distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive champion of universal human rights.” ....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/26/archbishop-desmond-tutu-giant-in-fight-against-apartheid-south-africa-dies-at-90

#DesmondTutu #Obituary #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #NobelPeacePrize #TruthAndReconcilliation