Notable omissions[edit] Foreign Policy has listed Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, U Thant, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Fazle Hasan Abed, Sari Nusseibeh, and Corazon Aquino as people who never won the prize, but should have.[36][37] Other notable omissions that have drawn criticism include Pope John Paul II,[38] Hélder Câmara,[39] and Dorothy Day.[40] (Both Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Day were recipients of the Gandhi Peace Award.) It was widely reported that Irena Sendler had been nominated for the 2007 prize, which was jointly awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore.[41][42] The omission of Mahatma Gandhi has been particularly widely discussed, including in public statements by various members of the Nobel Committee.[43][44] The Committee has confirmed that Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and, finally, a few days before his death in January 1948.[45] The omission has been publicly regretted by later members of the Nobel Committee.[43] Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question.[46] In 1948, following Gandhis death, the Nobel Committee declined to award a prize on the ground that there was no suitable living candidate that year. Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.[47]
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