Independent Online25d
How reliable are the Nobel Prizes?
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union for its "over six decades of contributions to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy, and human rights in Europe." ...
Newsday26d
Venezuelan opposition leaders receive the European Union's top human rights honor
STRASBOURG, France — The European Union's legislature on Tuesday ... The EU award, named after Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor ...
EURACTIV13d
Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100
Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote ... In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics ...
Washington Examiner24d
European Union honors Venezuela’s opposition leaders with heralded human rights prize
However, the European Union has acknowledged their efforts ... a former Soviet Union physicist and eventual dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Sakharov argued against the arms ...
EU Mourns Former U.S. President Carter
The European Union mourned on Monday the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at th ...