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has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992 to Rigoberta Menchú from Guatemala, in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. Like many other countries in South and Central America, Guatemala has experienced great tension between the descendants of European immigrants…

Banquet speech by Mr. Max Huber, one of the two official representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on the Nobel Dinner, Oslo, December 10, 1945  

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire (February 10, 1910-January 30, 1969), born in Dinant, Belgium, the first child of Georges and Berthe (Ravet) Pire, assigned his life to action in striving to achieve understanding among peoples of the world, to eliminate poverty and hopelessness in the emerging nations, to alleviate the lot of the refugees of…

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Presentation Speech by , member of the , on December 10, 1934 In the work for international peace, as in other fields of human endeavor, there must be a division of labor; among others, a division of labor between technicians and educators. Mr. is one of the technicians, a statesman devising plans for peace and…

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