Vietnamese monk wins Norwegian human rights prize
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A Norwegian human rights body, which has  four times anticipated the choice of the Nobel Peace Prize  winner with its own award, chose a Vietnamese monk on Thursday  to receive its annual prize.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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North Korea continues to violate human rights systematically by torturing, publicly prosecuting and oppressing its citizens, a United Nations envoy for human rights in the communist state said on Friday. "There are many grave negative situations," Vitit Muntarbhorn, a U.N. special rapporteur, told reporters in Tokyo.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Libya on Sunday awarded its annual Moammar Gadhafi human rights prize to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for resisting &quot;imperialism&quot; and being a champion of the poor.
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A pro-Moscow Chechen leader accused by  rights groups of kidnapping and murder earned Russia's highest  award Wednesday for "valor and heroism."
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Burmaâs democracy leader, Nobel laureate and General Secretary of The National League for Democracy (NLD), Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the honorary citizen of Paris by its city council in a ceremony held on 10 December.
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The recent visit to Vietnam by Norwegian King Harald V, Queen Sonja and high-ranking officials has contributed to enhancing mutual understanding and further boosting friendship and cooperation in many areas ...
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A Vatican delegation will meet with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi next week as the Holy See strives for diplomatic relations with the Communist-run country, Vatican officials said Thursday. Monsignor Pietro Parolin, an undersecretary of state, will lead the delegation, which departs Sunday.
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A Kenyan has become the first green activist to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Geoffrey Lean knows her well. Wangari Maathai - who this week became the first environmental activist to win the Nobel Peace Prize - was sunk in a rare moment of depression.
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British aid worker Margaret Hassan, who was taken hostage in Iraq last year and is believed to have been slain by her abductors, was awarded Ireland's most prestigious peace prize.
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Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai has been formally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Ms. Maathai urged her audience at Oslo&#39;s City Hall to recognize that protecting
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The Roman Catholic Church on Monday began the sainthood procedure for a Vietnamese cardinal who was imprisoned by the communists for some 13 years.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson and his  translator Anne Born won the world&#39;s richest literary prize for  a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel  &quot;Out Stealing Horses.&quot;
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A Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen was   detained in mid-August, a government spokesman said on Thursday   as rights groups complained he was arrested after using the   Internet to call for alternatives to one-party communist rule.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions in Africa, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Norwegian author Per Petterson beats Salman Rushdie to win the Impac prize with his novel Out Stealing Horses.