The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world.
"Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice."They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.
Eide, who has previously nominated human rights activists from Russia and China for the prize, said one other thing that impressed him about the Black Lives Matter movement was the way "they have been able to mobilise people from all groups of society, not just African-Americans, not just oppressed people, it has been a broad movement, in a way which has been different from their predecessors.
The Black Lives Matter movement was co-founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in response to the acquittal in the US of the man who shot Trayvon Martin.
Eide said he didn't want his nomination for Black Lives Matter to be seen as a comment on domestic US politics.
"Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful," he said.
His written nomination concludes: "Awarding the peace prize to Black Lives Matter, as the strongest global force against racial injustice, will send a powerful message that peace is founded on equality, solidarity and human rights, and that all countries must respect those basic principles.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize
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