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Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and three people that worked at his company Grameen Telecom are sentenced to six months in prison for violating Bangladesh's labor laws.
2024-01-1

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to make peace between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea.
2019-10-11

The Nobel Committee awards the global civil society coalition of The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons the Nobel Peace Prize "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".
2017-10-6

Former President and Prime Minister of Israel, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres dies at the age of 93.
2016-09-28

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's Swat District sentences ten people to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of an attack on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and two other school girls.
2015-04-30

For the first time in its 114-year-old history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which awards the Nobel Peace Prize) replaces against his will its head, Thorbjørn Jagland. Kaci Kullmann Five succeeds Jagland who will still remain a member of the committee.
2015-03-3

Leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
2012-12-10

Voters in Liberia go to the polls for a general election with current President and recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf facing a tight race.
2011-10-11

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announce the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, with the prize being shared between the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women's rights activist Tawakkul Karman.
2011-10-7

A ceremony is held in Norway to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo "in absentia".
2010-12-10