WASHINGTON (AP) — Winning the Nobel Peace Prize often provides a boost for a grassroots activist or international group working for peace and human rights, opening doors and elevating the causes for which they fight. But it doesn’t always work out that way.
For the two journalists who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, the past year has not been easy.
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