The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition politician, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mochado was awarded for “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the committee said.
Last year, the Japanese peace organization Nihon Hidankyo received the award for promoting a world free of nuclear weapons.
Nihon Hidankyo is a group of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Since August 1956, the organization has campaigned for greater healthcare provisions for survivors of the attacks, known as “hibakusha” (bomb-affected people), as well as a blanket ban on the development and use of nuclear weapons.
| Category | Winners | Research Area |
| Physiology or Medicine | Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi | Immune system |
| Physics | John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis | Macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling |
| Chemistry | Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi | Development of metal–organic frameworks |
| Literature | László Krasznahorkai | Compelling and visionary oeuvre |
| Peace | María Corina Machado | Promoting democratic rights for people of Venezuela |
| Economics | To be announced |
The award ceremony will be held on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. He died in 1896.
