World Peacemakers Nominated for Nobel
The Nobel Committee of Stockholm, Sweden said it had received 231 nominations for the 2012 `Nobel Peace Prize'. The list of nominees officially closed for 2012 on Friday & the committee doesn't reveal whose been nominated, but those who nominate often announce their picks. This year's candidates include: former US President Bill Clinton, Tunisia's Moncef Marzouki, Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko, & Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, writer/philosopher Gene Sharp, Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist from the DRC, UNICEF & GAVI, a public-private fund partly financed by the Gates Foundation. The recent `Arab Spring' protests, which began in Tunisia sweeping across Egypt, Libya, Yemen & most recently Syria got a nod from the Nobel committee in 2011, when Yemeni protest leader Tawakul Karman shared the prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & peace activist Leymah Gbowee. First awarded in 1901 the winner is announced October every year & receives the prize at a ceremony on December 10th, part of 5 awards instituted awarded by the Nobel Institute. (Read more at GULFNEWS)
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