Nobel Peace Prize Nominees Include Ex-Charlie Hebdo Journalist and Sahrawi Activist

Reuters revealed the names proposed for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Zineb El Rhazoui, a media personality in France, is on the list of nominees. The Franco-Moroccan journalist, writer and human rights activist is a polemicist on Islam in the media, one of the "most protected women in France" and lives under continuous police escort since the January 2015 attack. At the end of 2020, she was the victim of cyberbullying on Twitter by Idriss Sihamedi, founder of Barakacity.

Aminatou Haidar, president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), is also nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. She owes this nomination to her campaign in favor of the independence of Western Sahara.

Other nominees in the running: Russian lawyer and opponent Alexei Navalny and young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. UN agencies as well. These include the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO), whose COVAX program advocates for equitable access to vaccines against the new coronavirus in poor countries.

Former US President Donald Trump is also nominated, as is NATO, the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA, and the World Scout Movement, it is specified.

The names of the laureates will be known next October.