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FACTBOX: Winners of Nobel Peace Prize since 1980

Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:22am EDT

(Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for raising awareness of the risks of climate change.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to share the $1.5 million prize from a field of 181 candidates.

Following are winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:

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

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

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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