NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023

 

Context

Recently, Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Who is Narges Mohammadi?

• About:

• Woman, human rights activist, and freedom warrior Narges Mohammadi is the 2023 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• According to the Academy, the Nobel Peace Prize this year also honours the hundreds of thousands of individuals who protested the theocratic regime's oppressive and discriminatory laws against women.
• The slogan chosen by the Iranian protesters, "Woman - Life - Freedom," accurately captures Narges Mohammadi's commitment and labour of love.

• Contributions:

• Ms. Mohammadi opposes the death penalty in a nation that records the majority of state executions. a committed supporter of women's rights ever since she was a college student.
• She was detained for the first time in 2011 as a result of her efforts to support activists who were incarcerated and their families.

• Fight for Human Rights:

• She started resisting the regime's routine use of torture and sexualized violence against political prisoners, particularly women, while she was incarcerated in Iran.
• She showed prison support for the protesters during Mahsa Amini's protests (the Iranian Hijab Movement) and coordinated solidarity acts among her fellow prisoners.

• Other Awards Received by Mohammadi are:

1. Alexander Langer Award 2009.
2. UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and the Olof Palme Prize earlier in 2023.
3. Her book 'White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners' also won an award for reportage at the International Film Festival and Human Rights’ Forum.

What is the Iranian Hijab Movement?

• The headscarf or hijab is strongly advised by Iranian law for women to wear with their everyday attire. Recently, everyone who disobeyed this was either arrested, issued a harsh warning, or both.
• A 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini was detained for going beyond Iranian women's dress regulations.
• An enormous demonstration by Iranian women seeking more freedom broke out when Mahsa Amini was detained by the morality police of Iran and later killed.
• These days, this demand is not only limited to Iran; a global uprising has developed around it.
• Numerous other significant Western cities, such as Auckland, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Stockholm, Sydney, and Zurich, also witnessed protests with banners reading "Women, life, liberty."

 

 

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