"NOBEL PEACE PRIZE"

The trial of Belarusian rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski is “simply politically motivated” and he should be released, the UN human rights office said. UNTV CH

From the war in Ukraine to the response in health crisis and providing life-saving humanitarian aid, the work of the United Nations remained vital in a year marked by multiple overlapping crises. UNIFEED

Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany received the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR

The Secretary-General congratulates Ales Bialiatski and the organizations Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties on being awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, a UN spokesperson informed. UNIFEED

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General, said that two-thirds of the 771 million adults worldwide who lack basic literacy skills are women. UNIFEED

Addressing Leaders Day at the Transforming Education Summit taking place at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “instead of being the great enabler, education is fast becoming a great divider,” and called for a “new vision for education in the 21st century.” UNIFEED

UN Human Rights Office is “deeply concerned by the court’s decision in Moscow to revoke the license of Novaya Gazeta, a respected national newspaper whose editor-in-chief received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize,” said an OHCHR Spokesperson. OHCHR

The Secretary-General has paid warm tribute to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose death aged 91 was announced on Tuesday, describing him as the person who “more than any other” brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War, which had dominated international relations since the 1940s. UNIFEED

On World Press Freedom Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the following address at the annual award by the Freedom Cartoonist Foundation. OHCHR

Security Council delegates demand justice for perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict, urge creation of sanctions designation criterion.