Nobel Peace Prize
The bloody legacy of Henry Kissinger
Kissinger remains an influential thinker in geopolitics who has deeply shaped US foreign policy but his legacy is indeed bloody.
29 May 2023, 11:17 AM
Ensuring child rights: Social protection schemes are crucial
Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian social reformer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai in 2014, talks to the The Daily Star about the global child rights situation during his visit to Bangladesh on January 14-18.
23 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Meet Greta Thunberg, the climate change warrior
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated three Norwegian lawmakers for the Nobel Peace Prize for her prominent voice in campaigns against climate change.
14 March 2019, 16:09 PM
Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Award goes to two anti-rape activists
Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
5 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize: committee
The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.
29 August 2018, 15:36 PM
Person using stolen identity nominates Trump for Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, says someone using a stolen identity has nominated US President Donald Trump for the award, the Norwegian news agency says.
2 March 2018, 04:59 AM
Hero of Egypt's uprising feels rejected five years on
In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets.
25 January 2016, 13:28 PM
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.
18 September 2015, 04:39 AM
Malala celebrates string of top GCSEs
Girls' education campaigner and winner of Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai, who now attends Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, gains a string of As and A*s in her GCSEs.
21 August 2015, 11:12 AM
“Let us respect our children”
On June 1, Indian Nobel Peace Laureate and child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi sat down for an exclusive interview with Mahfuz Anam, Editor of The Daily Star.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
NASA astronomer names asteroid after Malala
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, the Malala Fund announced Wednesday, reports mashable.com.
10 April 2015, 14:12 PM