FACTBOX: Winners of Nobel Peace Prize since 1980

Fri Oct 5, 2007 6:41am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:

This year's laureate will be announced in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on October 12, and experts predict the prize will go to campaigners against climate change.

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

1997 - The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) 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  Continued...