Muhammad Ali Nominated for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

Muhammad Ali Nominated for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

September 12, 2007

    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Muhammad
Ali, three-time heavyweight boxing champion and one of the
most recognized people in the world, is a nominee for this
year's Nobel Peace Prize.  Co-nominated with Ali is Peter
Georgi, Ali's former senior humanitarian advisor.

    The nomination is based on Ali's and Georgi's many
years of effort to create the Children's General Assembly,
a new United Nations-authorized organization that will
allow children to promote the following:

    -- world peace
    -- environmental healing
    -- sustainable development
    -- the optimization of education
    -- the improvement of health and healthy water
supplies
    -- ways to reduce the world's mortality rate of
children
    -- remedies to the problems of hunger, malnutrition,
AIDS and other 
       diseases, illiteracy, drug abuse, 
    -- and many other pressing issues that face an
increasingly troubled 
       world.  


    The Children's General Assembly of Los Angeles,
California is gathering more than 100 child ambassadors
from around the world with the support of 179 governments
that have unanimously approved the concept of giving
children a meaningful voice in world affairs at the United
Nations.  Additional details can be found at
http://www.childrens-general-assembly.org .

    "You cannot find a better candidate than Muhammad
Ali for the Nobel Peace Prize," said Subash Razdan,
chairman of the Gandhi Foundation USA, the organization
that made the nomination.  

    Ali and Georgi are the cofounders of the Children's
General Assembly and its launching organization, the
Children's Peace Foundation.  Georgi, the organization's
chairman and president, conceived and financed the
development of the Children's General Assembly.

    Muhammad Ali, an official United Nations Messenger of
Peace, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and has a long
track record of promoting peace and helping children
throughout the world.  

    The Children's Peace Foundation's Honorary Board of
Advisors includes Elizabeth Taylor, Lionel Richie, Whoopi
Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, Rod Stewart, Quincy Jones, Little
Richard, Brooke Shields and many other celebrities.  The
Board of Advisors includes Claes Nobel, a senior member of
the Nobel family of Sweden.  

    The winner of the prize will be announced in
mid-October by the Nobel Committee.

    For more information on Children's Peace Foundation or
to make a donation visit
http://www.childrens-general-assembly.org .


    For more information, please contact:

     Brianne Lunzmann
     Hill & Knowlton
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail] 

     Peter Georgi
     Chairman and President
     Children's General Assembly
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]