The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this Friday, October 9, on the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) this Friday. Indeed, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the PAM for the efforts it provides in order to fight hunger in the world.
PAM is rewarded for “its efforts to fight hunger, for its contribution to improving the conditions of peace in the areas affected by conflicts and for having played an engine role in efforts aimed at preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war,” said the president of the Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen.
The Nobel Committee has also made the link between the coronavirus pandemic and the increase in the number of victims of famines around the world, a “dramatic situation” which justifies the existence of PAM, according to Reuters.
This is the twelfth time that the Peace Prize has devoted the United Nations, one of its agencies or a personality linked to it.
PAM is the most important organization fighting world in the world. Last year, she helped 97 million people in 88 countries. According to estimates, hunger could receive 270 million people by the end of 2020, an increase of 82% compared to the situation prevailing before the coronavirus crisis. More than 821 million people worldwide suffer from chronic hunger.
