2 minutes agoMerkel and Amal Clooney claimed the Nobel Peace Prize
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is one of the Nobel Peace Prize contenders for 2017, a reflection on her work with the persecuted Jazid minority in the Middle East. Clooney has represented a jazid woman who was raped and tortured by the Islamic State, who is also a contender [...]
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is one of the Nobel Peace Prize contenders for 2017, a reflection on her work with the persecuted Jazid minority in the Middle East.
Clooney has represented a jazid woman who was raped and tortured by the Islamic State, who is also a contender for Nobel, the United Nations, in March of this year, criticising the international body for failing to act.
It has also demanded that Islamic State crimes be investigated and persecuted. Amal Clooney, a Oxford graduate, has defended a number of high profile cases in the field of human rights during her career.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who just won the fourth term in Germany's elections, has also been mentioned as the possible Nobel Peace Prize winner for her refugee policies.
It has been highly praised for the policy of open doors to immigrants at the time Europe faced a influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees, most of whom fled from the Middle East conflicts. In 2015, she told the Germans that they should take pride in the hospitality offered for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, most of them removed from wars and persecution.
Other potential winners are mentioned as the president of Sri Lanka, the American Union for Civil Freedoms, the negotiating team following the nuclear agreement with Iran, Pope Francescu, Edward Snowden, etc.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on Friday, October 6th. Worth 9 million Swedish chrona, or $1.12 million, it will be delivered on December 10, 2017.
