CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger, promote peace in conflict-affected areas, and prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 Its efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations.

Detailed explanation-3: -By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 to Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honour three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful co-existence in the neighbour countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Detailed explanation-4: -World Food Prize Foundation announced the name of World Food Prize laureate 2022, Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of the United States. Rosenzweig was selected for the award for her research to understand the relationship between climate and food systems and forecast how both will change in the future.

Detailed explanation-5: -This year’s Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Ales Bialiatski was one of the initiators of the democracy movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s.