Nobel Prize

“Banker to the Poor”Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could…

Martti Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937 in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. Finland lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked the country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, Ahtisaari became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland. With his mother, he moved from one household to another before…

Foredrag av Barack H. Obama i Oslo Rådhus. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2009 Produced by NRK Norwegian Nobelforedrag av Barack H. Obama, Oslo, 10. desember, 2009. Deres majesteter, deres kongelige høyheter, ærede medlemmer av Nobelkomiteen, borgere av Amerika og borgere av verden: Jeg mottar denne hederen med dyp takknemlighet og stor ydmykhet. Det er…

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Presentation Speech by Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, member of the , on December 10, 1930 It might appear that this year’s two Peace Prize winners are widely separated, not only in the geographical sense by the ocean which separates their two countries, but also in the area of their activities and in the nature of their…

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