Kurdish Journalist Dilsa Demirbağ-Sten Appointed to Board of Nobel Center Foundation

Demirbağ-Sten, a journalist-writer based in Sweden, is appointed to the Board of Nobel Foundation. Speaking to bianet, she said, “It is delightful to see that an immigrant Kurdish woman could find the opportunities to improve herself and attain good positions.”

Murat Bayram

Kurdish Journalist Dilsa Demirbağ-Sten Appointed to Board of Nobel Center Foundation

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Dilsa Demirbağ-Sten, a well-known journalist based in Sweden, has been appointed as a member to the Board of Nobel Center Foundation in Sweden. The appointment has been shared with the public in a press release published on Foundation's official website.

Demirbağ-Sten has spoken to bianet about her new position.

'I am an immigrant in a democratic country'

Stating that Sweden gives people the opportunity of upward mobility, Demirbağ-Sten has made the following remarks:

"It is very delightful to see that an immigrant Kurdish woman could find the opportunities to improve herself and attain good positions.

"Sweden is a country which offers people the opportunity to improve themselves and make progress.

"We had to emigrate [from Turkey] and if I were not an immigrant in a democratic country, I would have no chance of progress.

"I hope to see Kurdish women in the board and in high positions."

About Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation is a private institution established on 29 June, 1900 with the aim of managing the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes.

The Foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel and one of the main missions of the Foundation is "to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune in a manner that ensures a secure financial standing for the Nobel Prize over the long term and that the prize-awarding institutions are guaranteed independence in their work of selecting recipients."

About Dilsa Demirbağ-Sten

She was born in Turkey's eastern province of Elazığ in 1969. Her family emigrated to Sweden when she was six years old.

She became a member of the Swedish Press Council in 2019 and she is also a member of the reference group for the Swedish government agency delegation against segregation.

In 2018, she was awarded the St:Erik medal for her contributions to Stockholm county.

Being a member of the expert council to Swedish Crown Foundation, she is also a member of the reference group for the Swedish government agency Kulturrådet. She was also formerly a member of the Swedish Globalization Council and a former member of the AllBright Foundation, Riksteatern, the Swedish Institute, Linnéuniversitetet, the Swedish Red Cross, the Swedish Humanist Association and the think tank FORES.

With a background in journalism, she also contributed to a series of Sweden-based newspapers such as Expressen, Östgöta Correspondenten, Göteborgs-Posten, Dagens Nyheter, Fokus and Axess. She also worked at Amnesty International and as a special adviser to Sweden's former Minister of Integration Leif Blomberg.

Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad

2018 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Êzidî activist Nadia Murad and physician Denis Mukwege from Kongo, who helps the ones subjected to sexual assault.

Nadia Murad is the first Kurdish person who received the Nobel Peace Prize financed by the Nobel Foundation.

(MB/HK/SD)

* Sources: Rudaw, Wikipedia

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