"Black Lives Matter" got a big spotlight this year during the protests sparked by the death of American George Floyd.

The movement was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian parliamentarian for its role in "raising awareness of the importance of the fight against racial injustice".

The anti-racial "Black Lives Matter" movement, which was rekindled last year by the death of American George Floyd, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian parliamentarian.

Founded in 2013 in the United States, the movement "has become one of the most powerful movements in the world in the fight against racial injustice," Petter Eide, deputy of the Socialist Left (SV), told AFP on Saturday.

"It started a few years ago in the United States [...] then spread to many other countries, raising awareness on the importance of the fight against racial injustice", a- he continued.

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After the death of George Floyd, a black American killed by a white policeman in May 2020 in the United States during a police arrest, "Black Lives Matter" called on many institutions around the world to demand change and better representation.

According to Petter Eide, he "opened the debate and [attracted] attention in many countries."

From Assange to Trump, many personalities proposed

Tens of thousands of people (parliamentarians and ministers from all countries, former laureates, some university professors, etc.) are entitled to submit a candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Applications, which must be sent out by the Jan.31 deadline, are usually kept secret unless their promoters choose to disclose their choice.

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We know that the controversial founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, a trio of Belarusian opponents led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, organizations working for vaccination (Cepi and Gavi) or freedom of the press (RSF and CPJ), the international network IFCN fact-checkers or even former US President Donald Trump have also been proposed.

The Nobel will be awarded in early October.

In 2020, he crowned the World Food Program (WFP).