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FACTBOX-Winners of Nobel Peace Prize since 1980
10 Dec 2006 12:00:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec 10 (Reuters) - Following are winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:

2006 - Muhammad Yunus and Bangladesh's Grameen Bank for work to end poverty

2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei

2004 - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai

2003 - Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi

2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

2001 - The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan

2000 - South Korean President Kim Dae-jung

1999 - Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres

1998 - Northern Ireland politicians John Hume and David Trimble

1997 - The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and campaign coordinator Jody Williams

1996 - Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo and Jose Ramos Horta, campaigners for human rights in East Timor

1995 - Veteran anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat and his Pugwash organisation

1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat

1993 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and South African President F.W. de Klerk

1992 - Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan campaigner for Indian human rights

1991 - Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev

1989 - The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet

1988 - U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

1987 - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, author of a peace plan for Central America

1986 - Elie Wiesel, Jewish author and human rights campaigner

1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, led by Yevgeny Chazov of the Soviet Union and Bernard Lown of the United States

1984 - Desmond Tutu, head of Anglican Church in South Africa and anti-apartheid campaigner

1983 - Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity union

1982 - Shared by Sweden's Minister for Disarmament Alva Myrdal and Mexican diplomat and former foreign minister, Alfonso Garcia Robles

1981 - Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

1980 - Argentine human rights campaigner Adolfo Perez Esquivel


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