Nobel Peace Prize 2020

  •  The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP).
WHY FOR?

  • It was awarded for its efforts to combat hunger, bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

  • The World Food Programme[a] (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations. 
  • It is the world's largest humanitarian organization.
  • Founded: 1961.
  • Headquarters: Rome, Italy
  • Head: David Beasley
  • Parent organization: United Nations General Assembly.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
  • It is presented by Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901
  • The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.
  • Henry Dunant of Switzerland for his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross and Frédéric Passy of France for being one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and also the main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress were awarded the first peace prize.
  • The highest number of peace awards have gone to International Committee of the Red Cross(3 times).
INDIANS IN PEACE
  • Mother Teresa won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. 
  • She received the prize for her “work in bringing help to suffering humanity”.
  • Kailash Satyarthi, along with Malala Yousafzai, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. 
  • He received the honour “for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education.”

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