OXI Courage Award Recipient Maria Machado Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

 

— the third OXI Courage Award recipient to receive Nobel Peace Prize–

 

Maria Machado’s Daughter Ana Machado at the 2024 OXI Courage Awards

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2025 – Today Maria Corina Machado became the third OXI Courage Award winner to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  On May 15, 2024 Machado received the Global Courage Award for Truth at the first Global Courage Awards in Panama City, Panama hosted by It Takes Courage.  The award was accepted by her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado because her mother had been forced into hiding. 

To see Machado’s introduction video and her daughter’s acceptance speech click here.
To see Machado’s introduction by Evgenia Kara-Murza click here.
To see Machado’s acceptance video click here.
To see pictures from The Global Courage Awards where Machado was honored, click here.

Today the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize “goes to a brave and committed champion of peace – to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”  The Washington OXI Day Foundation and It Takes Courage congratulate Maria Corina Machado for her continued remarkable and inspiring courage and thank the Nobel Committee for honoring it in this profound way.

 

Ana Machado accepting the 2024 Global Courage Award for Truth with Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of 2018 Courage Award winner Vladamir Kara-Murza.

 

  

On October 30, 2024 Machado’s daughter Ana Corina spoke on behalf of her mother at the 14th Annual OXI Courage Awards in Washington, DC.  To see her remarks, click here.

   

Ana Machado at the 2024 OXI Courage Awards

 

Ana Machado with several OXI Courage Award winners from over the years

 

Machado follows two other remarkable women who first received the OXI Courage Award and then Nobel Peace Prize. 

In 2016 Nadia Murad received the OXI Courage Award and then in 2019 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the second youngest recipient in the history of the award.

 

Nadia Murad at the 2019 OXI Courage Awards

 

President Biden and Nadia Murad

 

Nadia Murad and Nick Logothetis

 

In 2019 Maria Ressa received the OXI Courage Award and then in 2021 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first journalist to receive it since 1935.

   

Maria Ressa at the 2019 OXI Courage Awards 

 

Maria Ressa and Danialle Karmanos