<p>Black Lives Matter, a movement which became a rallying cry after the killing by US police of an unarmed black man, has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian MP said Saturday.</p>.<p>Founded in the United States in 2013, the movement received an impetus in May after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd's pleas that he couldn't breathe.</p>.<p>The incident fuelled protests in the United States that sped across the world.</p>.<p>"This movement has become one of the strongest global movements for working with racial injustice," Petter Eide, a socialist lawmaker who proposed BLM for the Peace Prize, told AFP.</p>.<p>"They have also been spread to many many countries, building up... awareness on the importance of fighting racial injustice," he said.</p>.<p>Tens of thousands of people, including MPs and ministers from all countries, former Nobel laureates and distinguished academics, can propose candidates for the various Nobel prizes.</p>.<p>The deadline ends on Sunday.</p>.<p>Several other names have been mooted for the Peace Prize including controversial Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange, former US president Donald Trump, media rights group RSF and a trio of Belarusian opposition leaders led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.</p>.<p>The Nobel prizes will be announced at the start of October. This year's prize went to the World Food Programme, the UN food agency.</p>
<p>Black Lives Matter, a movement which became a rallying cry after the killing by US police of an unarmed black man, has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian MP said Saturday.</p>.<p>Founded in the United States in 2013, the movement received an impetus in May after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd's pleas that he couldn't breathe.</p>.<p>The incident fuelled protests in the United States that sped across the world.</p>.<p>"This movement has become one of the strongest global movements for working with racial injustice," Petter Eide, a socialist lawmaker who proposed BLM for the Peace Prize, told AFP.</p>.<p>"They have also been spread to many many countries, building up... awareness on the importance of fighting racial injustice," he said.</p>.<p>Tens of thousands of people, including MPs and ministers from all countries, former Nobel laureates and distinguished academics, can propose candidates for the various Nobel prizes.</p>.<p>The deadline ends on Sunday.</p>.<p>Several other names have been mooted for the Peace Prize including controversial Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange, former US president Donald Trump, media rights group RSF and a trio of Belarusian opposition leaders led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.</p>.<p>The Nobel prizes will be announced at the start of October. This year's prize went to the World Food Programme, the UN food agency.</p>