The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the jailed Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, as well as two human rights organizations
he 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, as well as two human rights organizations: the Russian group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties.
“Through their consistent efforts in favor of human values, anti-militarism, and principles of law, this year’s laureates have revitalized and honored Alfred Nobel’s vision of peace and fraternity between nations,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, “a vision most needed in the world today.”
By honoring these particular laureates, the Nobel committee appeared to underscore the importance of civic society in combating authoritarianism. Bialiatski is one of the early founders of the pro-democracy movement that emerged in his native Belarus in the mid-1980s, and has been languishing in prison since last year. Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties, for their part, have been working tirelessly to defend human rights in warring Russia and Ukraine .
Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties thanked the international community for their support, noting that the Nobel recognition is “very important to us,” according to the
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