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Why Lula should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
From the fight against poverty to striving to end conflict, Lula’s policies have had a global reach, says former Brazilian foreign minister CELSO AMORIM

ON April 13 2018, six days after president Lula’s arrest, Adolfo Perez Esquivel launched, through an online platform, the campaign for former Brazilian President Lula da Silva to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

A few weeks before, he had been with Lula at his namesake institute (Instituto Lula) and mentioned the idea. 

I joined the Argentinian Human Rights activists on that visit, led by the jurist Carol Proner. 

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