Youth Human Rights Movement gets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian Nobel Committee included the
Youth Human Rights Movement in the list of nominees for the Nobel
Peace Prize 2013. This network of organizations was nominated for the
prize for educational and human rights activities in different
countries. This became a peculiar gift to the human rights defenders
on the International Day of Youth Actions for Human Rights, 9
April.
According to the rules of Nobel Committee, the list of
nominees is kept in secret for fifty years after the award. However,
it is also known that among the nominees for this year's prize are
the former US President Bill Clinton, the human rights society
"Memorial" and the Pakistani schoolgirl Malaya Yusufzai,
severely injured by Talib fundamentalists for being an advocate of
school education for women.
It's quite interesting that the
adoption of the list of nominees coincided with the prosecutorial
examinations of numerous Russian human rights organizations,
including the Youth Human Rights Movement.
On 10 December 2011
the Coordinative Board of the Youth Human Rights Movement awarded the
status of a honorable member to the head of the Human Rights Center
"Viasna" Ales Bialiatski, imprisoned on political
grounds.
Youth Human Rights
Movement is a community established within the framework of an
international project on 8 August 1998 and seeking to establish and
support the new generation of young human rights defenders and civil
society activists.
