UK professors nominate Cuban doctors for Nobel Peace Prize

[Judi Lynn]

London, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) University Professors Alpesh Maisuria and Matt Henn, from the United Kingdom, have nominated Cuba's Henry Reeve Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, it was reported here on Tuesday.

According to a statement sent to Prensa Latina by Rob Miller, director of the Campaign for Solidarity with Cuba in the UK, both professors formalized their request in letters sent to the Norwegian Committee in charge of designating the winner of the Nobel Prize.

Henn highlighted that since the internationalist Henry Reeve Brigade was founded in 2005, thousands of doctors and health workers have treated over four million people around the world.

They have volunteered in 45 countries after natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, as well as the cholera and Ebola outbreaks. Its internationalism and humanism are truly inspiring, Trent, a Nottingham University Professor of Social Research, wrote.

On the other hand, Maisuria, who teaches Educational Policy at the University of the West of England, pointed out that in the context of growing hostility by the United States against Cuba, it would have been understandable that the Caribbean nation had put aside its internationalism to focus on its domestic troubles.

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1. Sri Lankan Organizations Requests Nobel Prize for Cuban Doctors

Cuban medical brigade waits to depart for Sri Lanka from Havana, Cuba, May 22, 2020. |
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Published 26 November 2020

The initiative to nominate them arose amid U.S. attempts to discredit the work of Cuban medical collaboration.

Sri Lanka's Friends of Cuba Group Wednesday asked to nominate Cuba's Henry Reeve Medical Brigade for the Nobel Peace Prize for its "humanistic work facing disaster situations."

The Group launched a virtual campaign to collect signatures to support the nomination and in rejection of the 60-decades-long U.S. blockade against Cuba.

"This initiative is also a tribute to the Cuban Revolution's historic leader Fidel Castro on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of his death," Cuba-Sri Lanka Friendship Association Tissa Vitarana assured.

Leaders of Sri Lanka's political parties, Association of Cuban Graduates' representatives, and prominent university professors supported the campaign.

"Cuba has supported poor and rich countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa during these months of the pandemic. COVID-19 made no concessions, and the Caribbean island was where it was most needed," Vitarana added.

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