Lucire’s news-makers of 2024
These are the people who shaped our #news and #society during 2024, giving a voice where it is needed

https://lucire.com/2024/1224ll0.shtml #GiselePelicot #BlakeLively #HanKang #HanaRawhitiMaipiClarke #politics #Aotearoa #NZ #USA #misogyny #RapeCulture #living #Gaza #media #NobelPrize #Seoul #Korea #Avignon #France

On 12 December 1974 Seán MacBride received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Rising from a domestic Irish political career, he founded or participated in many international organisations of the 20th century, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe and Amnesty International. He received the Lenin Peace Prize for 1975-1976 and the UNESCO Silver Medal for Service in 1980.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NobelPrize #SeanMacBride

"Why is the world so violent and painful?

And yet how can the world be this beautiful?"

‘Each time I work on a novel, I endure the questions, I live inside them’: Han Kang’s Nobel lecture https://scroll.in/article/1076552/each-time-i-work-on-a-novel-i-endure-the-questions-i-live-inside-them-han-kangs-nobel-lecture via @scroll_in

#HanKang #Literature #Nobelprize

Yesterday in Labor History, November 29, 2023: Mass murderer and War Criminal Henry Kissinger is finally dead!

He won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Lê Đức Thọ, for their work in orchestrating a ceasefire in the Vietnam War. Two Nobel Prize committee members resigned in protest. During his diplomatic career, Kissinger was involved in orchestrating and/or supporting the Chilean coup and Pinochet dictatorship (over 3,000 killed); the Argentine Dirty War (up to 30,000 killed); the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh (3 million killed); and the Genocide in East Timor (up to 300,000 killed).

#kissinger #WarCrimes #genocide #HumanRights #imperialism #MassMurder #dictatorship #NobelPrize #vietnam #chile #EastTimor #bangladesh #argentina

A day after Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, members of the group expressed gratitude for the award, but also noted the pressing need to ensure that nuclear weapons remain taboo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/12/japan/nobel-peace-prize-nihon-hidankyo/ #japan #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #nobelprize #awards #hiroshima #nagasaki #hibakusha #wwii #atomicbombings

Topic 6: Dictatorships

Book:
Secondhand time: the last of the Soviets, by Svetlana Alexievich

This book was one of the (emotionally) hardest reads I ever had. But it was so worth it. It is a compilation of interviews and personal monologues from hundreds of people, centered on the fall of the Soviet Union. People who were happy, people who were devastated, people who were guilty, and innocent. Nobel Prize well deserved.

#history #histodons #NobelPrize