No time for EU to rest on laurels after Nobel Prize win

Headline Title: No time for EU to rest on laurels after Nobel Prize win 15 October 2012 By Marek Marczynski, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia programmeFor more than a century the Nobel Peace Prize has been the most valued and widely recognized award granted to peace activists, human rights defenders and outstanding statesmen so in Brussels there will have been celebrations that the EU scooped this gong on 12 October. Granting the prize to Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu or Aung San Suu Kyi helped to drive enormous, long-term human rights changes…

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