by Susan | Aug 24, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1971 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Willy Brandt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe....
by Susan | Aug 24, 2016 | Wednesday on the Web
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery exhibition “The Struggle for Justice,” covering the struggle in the U.S. for equal rights for women, African-Americans, Native Americans, the disabled, and gays and lesbians, is now online. It...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 24, 1999 In Jordan, the National Popular Campaign for Ending So-Called Honor Crimes began efforts to get rights for women and harsher laws against men who kill female relatives for family...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1970 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Norman E. Borlaug, of the United States, Director of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; for his contributions to the “green revolution” that was having such an impact on food production...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 23, 2014 7,500 people from 27 countries formed an 8-kilometer long human chain across the German-Polish border to protest opencast brown coal (lignite) mining, which could result in the destruction of villages in both...
