The movement against racial inequalities "Black Lives Matter", which was revived last year by the death of black American George Floyd, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian parliamentarian.
Founded in 2013 in the United States, the movement "has become one of the most powerful movements in the world in the fight against racial injustice," said Petter Eide, deputy of the Socialist Left (SV) on Saturday.
“It started a few years ago in the United States […] then spread to many other countries, raising awareness of the importance of the fight against racial injustice,” he said. he continued.
BLM "opened the debate and (attracted) attention in many countries"
After the death of George Floyd, a black American killed by a white policeman in May 2020 in the United States during a police arrest, "Black Lives Matter" called on many institutions around the world to demand change and better representation.
According to Petter Eide, it "opened the debate and (attracted) attention in many countries".
Tens of thousands of people (parliamentarians and ministers from all countries, former laureates, some university professors, etc.) are entitled to submit a candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Applications, which must be sent out by the Jan.31 deadline, are usually kept secret unless their promoters choose to disclose their choice.
We know that the controversial founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, a trio of Belarusian opponents led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, organizations working for vaccination (Cepi and Gavi) or freedom of the press (RSF and CPJ), the international network IFCN “fact-checkers” or even former US President Donald Trump have also been proposed.
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Last year, he crowned the World Food Program (WFP).