Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in Venezuela, snubbing Donald Trump’s ambitions. Photos: X.
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
The committee, in its decision, snubs US President Donald Trump, who had expressed a desire to receive the coveted prize. He publicly claimed that he ended seven wars across the globe. More recently, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that the US President deserves the peace prize for ending the Gaza War.
This year, 338 nominations were filed for the award. This includes 244 persons and 94 organisations. The Nobel Committee, which picks the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize, was established in 987 by the Norwegian Storting (Norway’s parliament).
Members of this committee are elected for a year. They can also be re-elected. Jorgen Watne Frydnes chaired this year’s Nobel Committee members. The other members include:
Asle Toje, 51
Anne Enger, 75
Kristin Clemet, 68,
Gry Larsen, 49
In 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. It is the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers’ Organisations. The organisation received the award “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”.
So far, 142 laureates have been awarded, which includes 111 individuals and 31 organisations. The gender disparity is apparent even in this coveted award, with 92 recipients, so far, being men, while only 19 women. Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai was the youngest Nobel laureate, who won in 2014, when she was only 17.
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