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Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ales Bialiatski
Belarusian pro-democracy activist (born 1962)
Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski is a human rights defender, Belarusian pro-democracy activist, writer, chair of the Viasna Human Rights Centre and prisoner of conscience. An activist for Belarusian independence and democracy since the early 1980s, Bialiatski is a founding member of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Memorial (society)
International human rights organisation
Memorial is an international human rights organisation founded in Russia during the fall of the Soviet Union to study and examine the human rights violations and other crimes committed under Joseph Stalin's reign. Subsequently, it expanded the scope of its research to cover the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Center for Civil Liberties (human rights organization)
Ukrainian human rights organization
The Center for Civil Liberties is a Ukrainian human rights organization led by the Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk. It was founded in 2007, with the purpose of pressuring Ukraine's government to make the country more democratic. The organization was awarded the 2022 Nobel…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Award
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate human rights and civil liberty. The recipients were the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Peace Prize
One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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