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The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Goes To The World’s Largest Hunger Program
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the world’s largest humanitarian organization that feeds the hungry.
The World Food Program (WFP) won the...
16-Year-old Protester Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Ahead of Her Biggest Global Youth-Led Rally Yet
If she wins the prize, this 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl would become the youngest person to ever be a Nobel laureate.
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Winners Risk Their Lives to Make the World Better for Victims of Sexual Violence
Two doctors are being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for their incredible efforts to stop sexual violence in the DRC.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ended 50 Year Colombian War
This year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos now hailed for ending a bloody battle lasting half a century.
Greek Islanders to Get Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for Saving Refugees
Greek Islanders who have sacrificed their livelihoods and risked their lives to rescue refugees on the Aegean Sea have been nominated for the Nobel...
Chemical Weapons Watchdog in Syria Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is currently overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, has been awarded this year's...
Why Europe Deserved the Peace Prize
Early on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo did something unusual: Instead of rewarding the Nobel Peace Prize to an individual, it gave...
Filipino Street Kid Wins $130,000 Peace Prize
An abused Filipino child who lived off a garbage dump has won a prestigious children's award for the work of his 'Championing Community Children'...
Aung San Suu Kyi Finally Claims her Nobel Peace Prize, 21 years Later
Aung San Suu Kyi received two standing ovations inside Oslo's city hall as she gave her long-delayed acceptance speech 21 years after she received...
Why a Woman-Hero Activist From Yemen Won the Nobel Peace Prize
From the moment Tawakul Karmen took off her veil in front of television cameras five years ago, she has been a force of change...
Three Women’s Rights Activists Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen share the honor of being awarded this...
Tribute: Wangari Maathai, First African Woman to Win Nobel Peace Prize (1940-2011)
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at...
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to President Obama
In Oslo this morning it was announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 will be awarded to President Barack Obama for his...
Nobel Peace Prizes Spread Across Globe
Stockholm, Sweden – Nobel Peace Prize winners are increasingly chosen from among diverse nations, as more nominations for the honor are directed toward Africans,...
Good News in History, April 9
15 years ago, Parks and Recreation, a television mockumentary debuted on NBC, and leaped right into the hearts of millions of Americans. Without being...
Good News in History, April 1
51 years ago today, the federal government of India, under the administration of Indira Gandhi, implemented Project Tiger, a comprehensive strategy to try and...
Good News in History, March 31
33 years ago today, the Warsaw Pact officially disbanded, ending the military build-up and stand-off between European communism and European democracy. As many of...
Good News in History, March 18
100 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from...
Good News in History, March 11
173 years ago today, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto premiered in Venice. This cornerstone of opera seasons present and past tells the story of a court jester who...
Good News in History, March 2
125 years ago today, President William McKinley signed into law a bill creating Mount Rainier National Park, the fifth in the nation, in order...