🔥 Nobel Peace Prize: Indigenous, women or green activists could win 2023 award 🔥 -------------------------------- ❌❌❌ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but experts say campaigners for women, Indigenous peoples or the environment could well steal the stage. ✔ Given past form, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is also capable of a complete surprise in the Oct. 6 announcement. ✔ Though bookmakers have Zelenskiy as a top candidate to join the illustrious list of laureates from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King, Nobel specialists believe that as a wartime leader, the Ukrainian president is unlikely to be named. ✔ The imprisoned Navalny's chances are lessened because Russian dissidents won last year and the year before. ✔ A third bookmakers' favourite is jailed Uyghur activist Ilham Tohti, though that would infuriate China. When jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo won the peace prize, Beijing froze diplomatic relations with Oslo for six years. ✔ Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, said in a year marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the committee may decide to shine a light on the contribution of activists to peace. ✔ A prize to Tohti or another activist in China would be a welcome focus on Beijing's increasingly authoritarian rule, he said. ✔ Urdal also cited Iran's Narges Mohammadi, who campaigns for women's rights and against the death penalty and is currently in jail; Afghanistan's Mahbouba Seraj who, despite a ban from the ruling Taliban, continues to campaign for girls' rights to education and other women's rights and remains in Kabul. ✔ "I think perhaps the most likely candidates would be human rights defenders," he said. Cre: Reuters