Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers. At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge. For years…

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Internationally known as Africa’s “Iron Lady,” President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of peace, justice and democratic rule. She grew up in Liberian capital of Monrovia, where she married and had four sons. President Johnson Sirleaf later moved to the United States where she earned an accounting degree from the Madison College of…

English I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement Nobel Lecture in Absentia, December 10, 2010 Statement of December 23, 2009 Read by Liv Ullmann [TRANSLATION BY HRIC*] In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of…

Liu Xiaobo, a prominent independent intellectual in China, is a long-time advocate of political reform and human rights in China and an outspoken critic of the Chinese communist regime; Liu has been detained, put under house arrest and imprisoned many times for his writing and activism. According to his lawyers’ defence statement in his 2009…

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Links to other sites Video ‘I have no enemies – Liu Xiaobo ‘, from the Nobel Peace Center

Woodrow Wilson did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

The Nansen International Office for Refugees, authorized by the League of Nations in the fall of 1930, began active operations on April 1, 1931. This office was the successor of the first international agency dealing with refugees, the High Commission for Refugees, established by the League of Nations under the direction of (q.v.) on June…