Tawakul Karman – Nobel Prize Winner From Yemen

The Nobel Peace Prize will be formally presented Saturday to the three women awarded the honor this year. One of them is Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni journalist and a key figure in her country’s protests.

Despite Nobel Prize, Sirleaf’s Re-Election Not Guaranteed

Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, but it’s no guarantee that she’ll win re-election on Tuesday.

Reaction From Liberia on Nobel Prize

Not everyone is happy in Liberia about Sirleaf winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yemeni Activist Tawakul Karman Among Three Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Letta Tayler, a Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, talks about Tawakul Karman.

UN Leader for Women on Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Michelle Bachelet was the first woman president of her country and is now head of the new UN organization devoted to women.

Nobel Peace Prize Shared Between Three Women

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is split between three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activists Tawakul Karman of Yemen and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia.

Empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing to find out whether people in China were able to follow today’s proceedings in Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. His absence was marked symbolically by an empty chair. Download MP3

Nobel reading

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At today’s Nobel ceremony in Oslo, actress Liv Ullman read from a speech Liu Xiabo made ahead of his sentencing last year. We have an excerpt. Download MP3

China, the Nobel and Soft Power

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony is scheduled for Friday in Oslo, Norway. An empty chair will highlight the recipient’s absence. Human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is in China, serving an 11-year prison sentence for helping to write and circulate a petition. The Chinese government is furious about Liu’s award and has gone to great lengths to hush up news of the award back home. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from Beijing. Download MP3

Peace prize impact on dissident winners

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Peter Osnos, former foreign correspondent and currently editor-at-large of Public Affairs. Osnos recalls the impact of the Nobel Peace Prize on the lives of other dissidents who have won in the past, including Russian physicist Andrew Sakharov and Poland’s Lech Walesa. Download MP3

China still livid at Nobel winner

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China is still livid over the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident, Liu Xiaobo. Today, Chinese authorities blocked the dissident’s lawyer from travelling overseas, ahead of the Nobel ceremony next month. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the big picture from The World’s Beijing correspondent, Mary Kay Magistad. Download MP3

Global Political Cartoons: October 9 – 15, 2010

Chilean miners emerge out of the hole to a global welcome; China bristles at the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace prize winner: one of their imprisoned citizens, and the Tea Party boils.

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Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel

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Author and political activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, who is known as one of China’s leading dissidents, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence for “subverting state power” after helping write a manifesto, called Charter 08, which calls for political change in China. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the story. Download MP3
>>Read 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s final statement

Support for Nobel Peace Prize winner

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Jailed Chinese writer and civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. China’s government is not pleased. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Chinese novelist, Diane Wei-Liang, about what she thinks has inspired this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner to challenge the Chinese government’s human rights record. The novelist herself is a veteran of the pro-democracy movement in China.

Weird words like whiffling, and the elusive meaning of peace

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A conversation with Adam Jacot de Boinod, a seeker of obscure but colorful English expressions. If you read his new book, “The Wonder of Whiffling”, you’ll know whether you prefer to muppet shuffle or dwile flunk. You’ll know if you are a pozzy-wallah. Some of expressions are brand new, others long gone. Also, the meaning of the word peace. Barack Obama was the latest figure to tweak its definition when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and made the argument for “just war”. Download MP3