Belarusian human rights activist Alice Bialiatsky, the Russian Memorial for Human Rights and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
Today, Friday, in Oslo, the capital of Norway, he announced the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, in light of tense global circumstances, especially Russia's war on Ukraine, which plunged Europe into one of its most serious crises since World War II.
The number of candidates this year reached 343, distributed among 251 individuals and 92 organizations.
Here are the names of the winners of the last ten years of the Nobel Peace Prize:
2021: Russian journalists Dmitry Muratov and Filipino Maria Ressa "for their valiant defense of press freedom".
2020: The United Nations World Food Program "for its efforts in the fight against world hunger".
2019: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed "for his efforts to establish peace", and specifically for his "decisive initiative aimed at settling the border dispute with Eritrea".
2018: Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi Nadia Murad for their efforts to combat sexual violence used in conflicts around the world.
2017: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its contribution to the adoption of a landmark treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
2016: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his commitment to end the armed conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
2015: The Quartet that sponsors the National Dialogue in Tunisia, consisting of 4 civil society organizations, which made it possible to "save the democratic transition in the country."
2014: Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) and Kailash Satyarty (India) for their “struggle against the persecution of children and youth and their defense of the right of all children to education.”
2013: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for its efforts to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
2012: The European Union, the most important project that contributed to peace on a continent torn apart by two world wars.