The Swedish Academy, Stockholm, has awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to the Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. According to the academy, she has been chosen for the award "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all."

She will be awarded a prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor on 10 December 2023 in Oslo, Norway. 10 December is the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel, in whose name the prize is awarded.

The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, and Economic Science are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. However, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

About the Nobel Prize Winner

51-year-old Narges Mohammadi is an Iranian writer, human rights activist and deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC). Currently, she is in Evin prison in Tehran.

Mohammadi is currently serving multiple sentences, amounting to 12 years, for "spreading anti-state propaganda".

Narges Mohammadi has been in and out of prison for the last decade due to her activism and work on abolishing the death penalty in Iran and campaigning for women's rights.

The hardline Iranian government has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.

Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the award in 2003.

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize was founded in the memory of Alfred Nobel, who, in his will, asked to set up a foundation to give prizes to those persons or institutions that, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to "humankind". The Nobel Foundation was set up in 1900, and the first Prize was given in 1901.

Nobel Peace Prize

Between 1901 and 2023, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 104 times to 141 persons and institutions. It includes 111 individuals and 30 organisations.
The International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) is the only institution/person to get the Nobel Peace Prize thrice (in 1917, 1944 and 1963).
In 1954 and again in 1981, The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice.
The inaugural Prize was jointly shared by Jean Henry Dunnat of Switzerland and Frédéric Passy of France.
In 2022, the Prize was awarded to Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Memorial, a Russian human rights organisation, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.'

Nobel Peace Prize for Women

Narges Mohammadi is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2011, three women were jointly given the Nobel Peace Prize.

Serial No	Prize Winner	Citizen	Year of Award
1	Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner	Austria	1905
2	Jane Addams (with Nicholas Murray Butler )	United States of America	1931
3.	Emily Greene Balch( with John Raleigh Mott)	United States of America	1946
4	Betty Williams	United Kingdom	1976
5.	Mairead Corrigan	United Kingdom	1976
6	Mother Teresa	India	1979
7	Alva Myrdal( with Alfonso García Robles)	Sweden	1982
8	Aung San Suu Kyi	Myanmar	1991
9	Rigoberta Menchú Tum	Guatemala	1992
10	Jody Williams	United States of America	1997
11	Shirin Ebadi	Iran	2003
12	Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	2004
13	Tawakkol Karman	Yemen	2011
14	Leymah Gbowee	Liberia	2011
15.	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	President of Liberia	2011
16	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan	2014
17	Nadia Murad Basee Taha	Iraq	2018
18	Maria Ressa	Philippines	2021
19	Narges Mohammadi	Iran	2023

Indian Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Mother Teresa in 1979. She started her own organisation, "The Missionaries of Charity", to look after the poor and destitute.
Kailash Satyarthi in 2014. He founded the "Save the Childhood Movement" to free children from child labour.