Nobel nomination highlights Uighur plight: activist
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Ethnic Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer expressed satisfaction on Friday that her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize had focused global attention on her people's struggle against Chinese oppression and she denied any link to terrorism.
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WHEN Wangari Maathai got word she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was busy with the work that earned her the prestigious award - campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to hungry constituents suffering from drought.
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Despite international outrage, legal activist Chen Guangcheng will languish in prison for years and China's human-rights record gets another black mark
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The latest Nobel Prize laureate for literature is a self-described advocate for the weak, whose own &quot;social phobia&quot; will keep her from attending the awards ceremony in Stockholm.
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He&#039;s bent the ear of world leaders on social causes. He&#039;s a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He&#039;s a rock star. But could the lead singer of U2 also become a front man for a grass-roots campaign seeking to change how the music industry does business?
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A Nobel winning novelist is among the alleged hit list of targets singled out for speaking about Turkey's treatment of its minorities
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MOSCOW -- A prominent human-rights activist in Uzbekistan who worked part-time as a translator for New York-based Human Rights Watch has been detained after fleeing her homeland and then attempting to return, her lawyer said yesterday. Umida Niyazova, 32, an activist with Veritas, an unregistered Uzbek human rights group, was detained near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan on Jan. 22, according ...
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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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BEIJING, Aug. 24 -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport Friday by authorities, apparently on orders to prevent her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and...
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Ecologist Wangari Maathai urges global action to save the planet as she picks up her 2004 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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Among those tipped to win the 2004 Nobel  Peace Prize on Friday are the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its  leader Mohamed ElBaradei, a Kenyan environmentalist and a  Russian anti-nuclear activist.
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Speculation on who will win the Nobel Peace Prize has been hotly focused on the battle against one of the great threats to world peace: weapons of mass destruction.
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Former US vice president Al Gore is seen as a possible winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the planet from global warming, the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute has said.Comment
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Professor and environmental activist Wangari Maathai from Kenya will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2004 later on Friday. The Prize will be presented at the Oslo City Hall, by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee at 13:00 local time.
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Among those tipped to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday are the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its leader Mohamed ElBaradei, a Kenyan environmentalist and a Russian anti-nuclear activist.
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NPR.org, October 8, 2004 Â· Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday and urged world leaders to get on with the fight against poverty and stop spending money on wars like the one in Iraq.