Nobel Peace Prize 2003

 Shirin Ebad was born on 21 June, in 1947 in Iran.

She is a lawyer, and she fought to protect human rights and she is a very important activist defending women and children. She was awarded for her courageous efforts for democracy and human rights. The decision of the Nobel committee surprised many people around the world. People ,in fact, thought that the Pope John Paul II was the favourite because he was nearing death. After she won the Nobel prize, Shirin Ebadi wrote a book named “Democracy, human rights, and Islam in modern Iran: Psychological, social and cultural perspectives”. Since winning the Nobel Prize, Ebadi has lectured, taught and received awards in different countries. Her autobiography was released in an English translation.

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Nobel Peace Prize 1994

In 1994 Yasser Arafat (the leader of ALP), Shimon Peres (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel) and Yithzak Rabin (Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel) won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to create the peace in Middle East.

Since many years the conflicts between Palestine and Israel neighbour states were the must menacing for the international politics and have caused suffering for many people.

With many accords especially the Oslo Accord, Arafat, Rabin and Peres have made a contribute to make peace among this countries by cooperation to replace the hate.

by Emanuele and Francesco

Clinton, Arafat and Rabin after the Washington Accord

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/press.html

Nobel Peace Prize 1964

Martin Luther King Jr.

“I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY THIS NATION WILL RISE UP AND LIVE OUT THE TRUE MEANING OF ITS CREED”.

“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT ,THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL”

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968).In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi.

In 1964, at the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

" WHO PASSIVELY ACCEPTS EVIL IS AS RESPONSIBLE AS THOSE WHO COMMIT"

"LAW AND ORDER WILL BE RESPECTED ONLY WHEN WILL GRANT THE JUSTICE

ALL THOSE ALIKE"

"NOT AFRAID OF THE EVIL OF THE WICKED,BUT THE SILENCE OF THE HONEST"

"LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A

FRIEND"

"IT IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING"

by Antonino and Ippolito