Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first trip abroad since 1988 when she visits Oslo in June, Norway's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1991.
When last year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a 32-year-old Yemeni mother-of-three named Tawakkol Karman, few were more surprised than the recipient herself. Today, four months after her Nobel Prize, Karman is an internationally sought-after speaker.
The journalists who escaped the nightmare of Homs in Syria tell the story of their long and dangerous journey out of the besieged city. Next, we meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman as she works to build a new Yemen. Finally, an imaginary subway train has been crisscrossing through Palestinian territories. Our correspondent finds out more about this original art installation.
Wislawa Szymborska (pictured), a Nobel Prize laureate in poetry, died of lung cancer Wednesday, aged 88. Arguably the most popular poet in Poland, she tackled serious subjects with simplicity and humour.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President and 2011 Peace Nobel Prize Laureate, was a guest at the Académie Diplomatique Internationale’s "Forum for New Diplomacy", in partnership with the International Herald Tribune. A few weeks after being re-elected, she sat down with Marc Perelman to talk about her peace-building work in Liberia and the opposition’s harsh criticism of the electoral process.
Liberia's president, a Yemeni and a Liberian activist received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday for championing women’s rights in regions where oppression is common and helping women participate in peace-building.
Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Saturday called on voters to ignore calls from her challenger, Winston Tubman, to boycott the Nov. 8 election in which she looks set to win.
Ex-warlord and defeated candidate Prince Johnson told his supporters on Monday to back Nobel Peace Prize winning presidential candidate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in her November run-off with challenger Winston Tubman for Liberia's presidency.
Liberia's incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured), a Nobel Prize winner, took the lead over challenger Winston Tubman in early results on Friday but still falls short of a majority needed to avoid a run-off vote.
