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Sean MacBride Peace Prize

The Sean MacBride Peace Prize is a prestigious award given annually by the International Peace Bureau (IPB). Named after Sean MacBride, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former chairman and president of the IPB, this award honours individuals, organisations, or movements that have made outstanding contributions to peace, disarmament, and human rights. Past laureates include the Ukrainian Pacifism Movement, Black Lives Matter, Bruce Kent, and Noam Chomsky.

Sean MacBride Peace Prize
Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at an ICAN event in Hiroshima in 2011
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Nihon Hidankyo - Nobel Prize for Peace 2024

The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers, shortened to Nihon Hidankyo, is a grassroots movement representing the Hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The organisation is led by Terumi Tanaka, a Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and Hibakusha himself. They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work towards achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, and for promoting the social and economic rights of all nuclear weapons victims. Through the recording of witness testimonies, governmental lobbying, public appeals, and sending delegates to important international events, they promote global nuclear disarmament and raise awareness of the dire humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.

Nihon Hidankyo - Nobel Prize for Peace 2024
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Narges Mohammadi - Nobel Peace Prize 2023

This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to Narges Mohammadi. The Iranian human rights activist has been campaigning for women's rights in Iran and general democratic reforms in the country for years. During the 2022 protests, she released a report that exposed the systematic torture of women in prisons. For her work she was repeatedly persecuted by the Iranian regime, arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. She is currently serving a multi-year sentence in the notorious Ewin Prison.

Narges Mohammadi - Nobel Peace Prize 2023
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Nobel Peace Prize 2022

Hailed as a triple win for human rights and the situation in Ukraine - the winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize went to Russian civil rights group Memorial, the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, and to Belarusian pro-democracy activist Ales Bialiatski and his work with Viasna. They are being honoured for highlighting and documenting war crimes, human rights abuses, and abuses of power. As well as the promotion of civil society and the protection of human rights during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Maria Ressa

Nobel Prize for Peace 2021 - Maria Ressa & Dmitry Muratow

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 was awarded to Ressa and Muratov for their incredible work protecting freedom of expression, democracy, and peace. Ressa for her commitment to investigative journalism in the Philippines, through her digital media company Rappler. With a focus on the deadly regime of controversial Duterte, and also the spread of fake news via social media. Then Muratov, who has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia against worsening conditions. As editor-in-chief for the newspaper the Novaya Gazeta for 24 years, the independent news source has exposed corruption, police violence, unlawful arrests, and threats to democracy. At risk to their own safety, they continue to fight for freedom of information, to ensure the protection of these fundamental rights.

Nobel Prize for Peace 2021 - Maria Ressa & Dmitry Muratow
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Nobel Prize for Peace 2020 - World Food Project

This year the Nobel Peace Prize recognised the undeniable connection between armed conflict and hunger. The WFP is quite literally life saving for the millions of people living in areas affected by violence and war. Whether they have fled their homes through fear, or hunger is being used as a tool for surrender – the World Food Project is working tirelessly to bring food assistance to these areas, and also promoting peace - thus eliminating hunger, and ending the cycle of using it as a weapon of war.

Nobel Prize for Peace 2020 - World Food Project