Almost 130 years after Alfred Nobel’s death, the prize named after him continues to be among the world’s most coveted honours, recognising extraordina.

Sri Lanka, March 8 -- A fierce advocate for sustainable development, democracy, and women's rights, Maathai is best known for founding the Green Belt Movement, a non-governmental organization ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize is draped in moral grandeur. It is presented as humanity’s highest affirmation of fraternity, reconciliation, and moral courage. Its recipients are cast as architects of harmony ...

Summary: By Tetee Gebro, gender correspondent with New Narratives Leymah Gbowee, one of Liberia’s two Nobel Peace Prize winners, warned that societal pressure to conform and be subservient is holding ...

President Donald Trump welcomed leaders from around the world on Thursday as he hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington, D.C. One country that would not be joining the board ...

President Donald Trump still really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump returned to his familiar campaign rhetoric while delivering remarks at a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace on ...

Say this for Donald Trump: It isn’t hard to figure out what he wants, because he tells us. What he wants now is a Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is more than aware of this. The ...

When you hear the term "invent," your mind probably jumps to a new device or an upgrade to an existing one — kind of like the stuff you see at the Consumer Electronics Show. However, every now and ...

STAVANGER, Norway — Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly played up his ties to the former head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in invitations to and chats with elites like Richard Branson, Larry Summers, ...

Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been beaten nearly to death while imprisoned in Iran, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Wednesday. The committee said it had received “credible reports” of ...

OSLO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday that it had called on Iran to immediately free activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison. Mohammadi, ...