greatest hits: ElBaradei: Is the Arab world ready for reform?
Dr. Mohamed EdBaradei served as Director General of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from December 1997 to November 2009. In 2005 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. In 2009 he...
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1970 – Norman Borlaug, grandfather of the Green Revolution
Norman Borlaug, the “father of the Green Revolution”, lived in developing nations for the best part of five decades, teaching the techniques of high-yield agriculture. The form of agriculture he...
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1983 — Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity
Lech Walesa was an electrician in the Gdansk shipyards of Poland in 1970 when shipyard workers clashed with the communist government. In 1978 he began to organize activists for labor unions,...
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1984 – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid hero
In 1979, Anglican priest Desmond Mpilo Tutu became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC). He spoke strongly and internationally, pushing for non-violent...
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1986 – Elie Wielsel, author, humanitarian
Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when his entire family was taken from their homes in Romania to the Nazi concentration camps, first to Auschwitz where his mother and younger sister died, and then to...
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1993 – F. W. de Klerk, helped end Apartheid
An attorney who held a number of South African ministerial posts, F.W. de Klerk became both the leader of South Africa’s National Party and the country’s president in 1989. Upon becoming President, de...
View Article2010 — Liu Xiabo, Chinese human rights activist
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, currently a prisoner of conscience in China, for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” In making the...
View ArticleMohamed ElBaradei Part II: The view from the Muslim World
“Some people want to make it appear that we will wake up tomorrow and find that Iran has developed the bomb. This is not the case. Sixteen US intelligence agencies have said that Iran stopped working...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai: The world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate
In October 2014, Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace...
View ArticleKailash Satyarthi: Fighting Child Labor
Kailash Satyarthi, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, is a human rights activist from India, at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labor. A former...
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