Norwegian lawmakers reveal nominees for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian lawmakers who had a track record of picking winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, on Tuesday, announced names it nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
Among the nominees were British nature broadcaster, David Attenborough, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Belarusian dissident, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Also among the candidates for the accolade were Greta Thunberg, Pope Francis, the Myanmar National Unity Government formed by opponents of the 2021 coup and Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe.
Thousands of people, from members of parliament’s worldwide to former winners, are eligible to propose candidates.
Norwegian lawmakers had nominated an eventual Peace laureate every year since 2014 – with the exception of 2019 – including one of the two laureates in 2021, Maria Ressa.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which decided who won the award, did not comment on nominations, keeping secret for 50 years, the names of nominators and unsuccessful nominees.
However, some nominators like Norwegian lawmakers chose to reveal their picks.
Other nominees revealed by Norwegian lawmakers were jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, WikiLeaks and Chelsea Manning, NATO, aid organisation CARE, Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad and the Arctic Council.
Nominations, which closed on Monday, did not imply an endorsement from the Nobel committee.
(Reuters/NAN)
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