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Venezuelans started receiving nominations in 1908. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after, [1] including the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019.
The first Latin American recipient, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1936. The most recent, Juan Manuel Santos , was awarded the Peace Prize in 2016. Among the Latin American laureates, two served as heads of state or government of their respective countries upon receiving the Nobel Prize.
The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
Nobel Laureate [1] Year [1] Country [1] Status [1] Rationale Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) 1906 United States: 26th President of the United States (14 September 1901 – 4 March 1909) For his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia. [2] [3] Auguste Beernaert (1829 ...
Asser co-founded the Institute of International Law, the first organization to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But it was "his work in the field of private law" that was most important to his win.
2006 — Seoul Peace Prize [18] 2006 — Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Grameen Bank; 2007 — The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal awarded by Vanderbilt University [19] 2007 — Order of the Liberator in First Class with Grand Decoration awarded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez [20] 2009 — Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama [21]
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote ...
Venezuela took the name of Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República de Venezuela) with the adoption of the 1953 constitution, written by the Constituent Assembly elected in November 1952. The Presidents of Venezuela under this constitution (as well as the 1961 Constitution, which kept the name) were officially styled as President of the ...