Nobel Peace Prize Winners Over The Years

Japanese activist Tarumi Tanaka attends the Nobel Peace Prize press conference where Nihon Hidankyo is the 2024 laureate at the Nobel Centre on December 9, 2024 in Oslo, Norway.

(L-R) Juan Manuel Santos and Robert Socolow reveal the 2025 Doomsday Clock time held by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the United States Institute of Peace on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Doomsday Clock, currently the nearest it has been to midnight at 89 seconds, is a symbol for how close humanity is to a “global catastrophe”.

A protester holds a poster of Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski during a solidarity demonstration in Vilnius. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski turned 62 on September 25. He has been in Belarusian prison since July 2021, and in the last year, after being sentenced to 10 years and transferred to a penal colony, he has been incommunicado. There is no contact with him, letters from him do not arrive, and lawyers are not allowed to see him. According to human rights activists, today it is impossible to even say with certainty that Bialiatski is alive - the latest information that his health has deteriorated was received last summer. Many other well-known Belarusian political prisoners - Maria Kolesnikova, Maksim Znak, Viktor and Eduard Babaryka, and others - are in the same situation; relatives and human rights activists have had no information about them for years.

A rescued child embarked on Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Geo Barents. Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vessel Geo Barents intercepted two small boats full of migrants navigating towards Europe in the Libyan SAR zone. The NGO organized a rescue operation that saved more than 170 people, among them many women and children.

Iranian photographer Reihane Taravati looks on as she stands in front of her work, a portrait of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, at the exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on December 8, 2023. The current Nobel Peace Prize exhibition narrates the compelling story of Narges Mohammadi. Exclusive texts authored by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate herself are featured in the exhibition, offering a firsthand account of her experiences and perspectives. The Nobel Peace Prize exhibition to be open to the visitors from December 12. The official opening on December 11 at 16:30 is exclusively for invited guests. A press viewing is held on Friday, December 8.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Filipino journalist Maria Ressa signs books during the launch of her new book "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" on December 10, 2022 in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad pose on stage after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 2018 at Oslo City Town Hall on December 10, 2018 in Oslo, Norway. The Congolese gynaecologist, Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of rape victims, and Nadia Murad, the Iraqi Yazidi, who was sold into sex slavery by Isis, have been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel peace prize in recognition for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon in war.

Protesters carrying candles take part in a march to mourn the death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo on July 15, 2017 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.The body of China's most famous political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, was cremated under government watch on Saturday in China's Shenyang city with only his widow and a few other mourners to bid farewell. Family members of Liu Xiaobo scattered the ashes of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Chinese dissident into the sea hours after his cremation during a simple ceremony, ensuring there would be no grave on land, according to reports, as Beijing faces international criticism for not letting the Nobel laureate travel abroad as he had wished.

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi accept their Nobel Peace Prize Awards during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Town Hall on December 10, 2014 in Oslo, Norway.

(L-R) The winners of this years award Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman during the Nobel Peace Prize concert at the Oslo Spektrum on December 11, 2011 in Oslo, Norway.

Rene Carron, CEO of Credit Agricole SA, and Mohammad Yunus, Chairman of Grameen Bank, announce the launch of the Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation in Paris, France on February 18th, 2008 - Mohammad Yunus, Chairman of Grameen Bank and 2006 Pe.

Nobel Prize, Shirin Ebadi Meets Legal Service For Human Rights League In Paris. On December 15, 2003 In Paris, France.