Nobel Peace Prize 2023: 305 Nominations Filed For This Year's Award. Details

The candidates' identities are kept secret for fifty years in accordance with the Nobel statutes.

A woman holds Nobel Peace Prize medal.

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New Delhi: The Nobel Institute said on Wednesday that 305 people have applied for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but it didn't say who was on the list, the news agency AFP reported. The institute in Oslo said on its website that the nominations, which are fewer than the record 376 registered in 2016, include 212 individuals and 93 organisations.

The candidates' identities are kept secret for fifty years in accordance with the Nobel statutes.

Be that as it may, those qualified to designate - - including previous laureates, administrators and cabinet ministers from any country on the planet, and some college teachers - - are allowed to uncover the name of the individual or association they have proposed.

The majority of the names that have been made public so far are either opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin or involved in the nearly one-year-long conflict in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, and a Ukrainian group that is working to set up an international war crimes tribunal are among them.

Anti-Putin opponents in jail, including anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned, journalist and political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and the pro-democracy youth movement Vesna, are also known to have been nominated.

Climate activists Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, Iranian women's activist Masih Alinejad and her anti-hijab movement My Stealthy Freedom, and the Salvation Army are also thought to be on the list this year.

It is believed that pro-democracy activists from China and Hong Kong—Chow Hang-tung, Peng Lifa, and the group Uyghur Tribunal—as well as Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun—who was fired by the junta but is still in his position—the anti-junta coalition NUCC, Maggie Gobran—who helps the poor in Cairo's slums—were nominated.

Memorial, a Russian human rights group, the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) of Ukraine, and Ales Bialiatski, a jailed Belarusian rights advocate, shared the Nobel Peace Prize the previous year. These three individuals represented the three nations at the center of the conflict in Ukraine, which all three have criticized.