The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for 'its efforts to combat global hunger'
- The UN's World Food Programme has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
- Judges said the prize was to recognise its efforts in tackling global hunger
- Award is a snub to WHO, also a UN body, amid criticism of its handling of Covid
- Other front-runners were activist Greta Thunberg and dissident Alexei Navalny
The World Food Programme has been announced as the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts in combatting global hunger.
The UN body topped a field of contenders that included climate activist Greta Thunberg and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
Judges passed over the World Health Organisation, another UN body which was also in the running, for the prize amid criticism of its handling of the pandemic.
Also among the field was US President Donald Trump, who was hoping to follow in the footsteps of predecessor Barack Obama by being named a shock winner.
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the UN's World Food Programme for its role in combatting global hunger
The Nobel committee chose to pass over the World Health Organisation, another UN body that was also in the running, amid criticism of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic
There were 318 candidates - 211 individuals and 107 organizations. Nominations can be made by a select group, including national lawmakers, heads of state and certain international institutions.
The medal will be handed out at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death.
This year's event will be scaled down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The announcement was made in the Norwegian capital by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairwoman of the Nobel Committee.
The panel said the coronavirus pandemic has added to the hunger faced by millions of people around the world and called on governments to ensure the WFP and other aid organisations receive the financial support necessary to feed them.
'With this year's award, the (committee) wishes to turn the eyes of the world to the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger,' said Mr Reiss-Andersen.
'The World Food Programme plays a key role in multilateral co-operation in making food security an instrument of peace.
'The World Food Programme contributes daily to advancing the fraternity of nations mentioned in Alfred Nobel's will.'
A surprise nominee for this year's award was US President Donald Trump (left), while climate activist Greta Thunberg (right) was considered a front-runner
Alexei Navalny, the dissident Russian politician currently recovering in Germany after being poisoned by the state, was also considered a front-runner
Along with enormous prestige, the prize comes with a 10-milion krona ($1.1 million) cash award.
On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus.
Tuesday's prize for physics honored breakthroughs in understanding the mysteries of cosmic black holes, and the chemistry prize on Wednesday went to scientists behind a powerful gene-editing tool.
The literature prize was awarded to American poet Louise Gluck on Thursday for her 'candid and uncompromising' work.
Still to come next week is the prize for outstanding work in the field of economics.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe all food aid should contain birth control drugs?
Does food aid lead to increasing populations in countries that cannot produce enough food for their citizens?
What a crock of shit! The peace prize should not go to a organization that is simply doing it's job. I'm not sure what distributing food has to do with world peace. And being it's a UN group I doubt all the money they raise is going to where people think it is. UN is extremely corrupt and there really is no reason to even have it. It's a tool of the elite mother phuckers. But I am glad that stupid kid and the politicians didn't get it. And the statement that there is more hunger this year because of Covid is total bullshit! It's the reaction to the scam of covid that has caused more hunger, not to mention all those locusts in Afica and Asia that have destroyed millions of acreas of crops. I suppose they don't contribute to world hunger. It's all Covid covid covid. Blame everything on Covid. Create a scam and then blame everything that happens on that same scam. Plandemicseries.com to see the whole scam from start to present day.
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