FACTBOX-Winners of Nobel Peace Prize since 1980
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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