FACTBOX: Winners of Nobel Peace Prize in past decade

Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:03am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are the previous 10 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize:

2007 - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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

2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 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

 

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