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Nobel Peace Prize honors Amnesty International and Irish activists
Oslo awarded the 1976 prize to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan for leading peaceful marches to bridge Catholic Protestant divides in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International won the 1977 prize for aid to political prisoners. Last year’s prize was not awarded.
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Amnesty International
Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan
Corrigan
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
England