2024 Nobel Peace Prize Nominations Highlight Gaza, Ukraine Activists
Middle East-based organizations, Palestinian journalist, and groups committed to protecting conscientious objectors among the nominees.
- 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominations have closed, with peace activists connected to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine among the known entries.
- Middle East-based organizations EcoPeace, Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun have been nominated for their peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians.
- Palestinian video journalist Motaz Azaiza has been nominated for documenting conditions in Gaza.
- The Russian Movement of Conscientious Objectors and The Ukrainian Pacifist Movement have been nominated for their commitment to the protection of conscientious objectors to violence, particularly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
- The Belarusian organization Our House has also been nominated for its commitment to the protection of conscientious objectors.