FACTBOX: Winners of Nobel Peace Prize in past decade
(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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