This year's Nobel Peace Prize draws hundreds of nominees

FILE PHOTO: View of the lectern at the Nobel Institute before committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen makes a short statement as part of the digital award ceremony for this year's peace prize winner, the UN's World Food Programme December 10, 2020. NTB/Heiko Junge via REUTERS

OSLO (Reuters) - Some 329 nominations have been received for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, likely reflecting the profusion of pressing human rights issues around the world, the secretary of the committee which awards the prize said on Monday.

"It is the third highest ever total number," Norwegian Nobel Committee Secretary Olav Njoelstad told Reuters. The record was 376 candidates, reached in 2016.