Nobel Prizes are making their way on nowadays. The Nobel Peace Prize, the highlight of the annual awards week, will be declared on Friday along with press freedom watchdogs, Greta Thunberg and the World Health Organization who are seen as possible laureates in a field-wide open. The chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, will reveal the 2020 laureate or laureates at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, where coronavirus restrictions will drastically overcome the usual throng of reporters in attendance.
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This year, around 318 nominees were taken into considerations wherein that included 211 individuals and 107 organizations. But the names on the list are kept secret for 50 years, making predictions difficult. "There are good reasons for a prize in the field of journalism," said Sverre Lodgaard, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). "In order for decision-makers to intervene in a conflict, they must be able to build an opinion based on accurate information provided by the media," he explained. Since the first Nobel prizes were awarded in 1901, the Peace Prize has never honored work in the field of freedom of information.
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But the time may have come, experts say, citing Reporters Without Borders (known by its French acronym RSF) and the US-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) as possible winners. Climate promoters could also get the nod, 13 years after the UN's climate science advisory panel IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore won. Swedish teenage activist Greta could in such case be honored, either alone, with other activists, or with her "Fridays for Future" movement. The four women crowned so far this year with a Nobel is more than usual, closing in on 2009's record of five female winners.
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