“Banker to the Poor”Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could…

Martti Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937 in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. Finland lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked the country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, Ahtisaari became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. With his mother, he moved from one household to another before…

Foredrag av Barack H. Obama i Oslo Rådhus. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2009 Produced by NRK Norwegian Nobelforedrag av Barack H. Obama, Oslo, 10. desember, 2009. Deres majesteter, deres kongelige høyheter, ærede medlemmer av Nobelkomiteen, borgere av Amerika og borgere av verden: Jeg mottar denne hederen med dyp takknemlighet og stor ydmykhet. Det er…

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Presentation Speech by Halvdan Koht, member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1931 In awarding the Peace Prize to two Americans, the today brings the United States into first place among those nations whose representatives have received the prize during the past thirty years. Previously, France had the highest number of prizewinners, a total…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Peace Prize for 1954 to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. War has existed in all times – war between tribes, war between races, war between nations, civil wars and religious wars. War has always laid…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1975 to Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. In the will and testament that Alfred Nobel drew up prior to his death in…