Nobel Peace Prize timeline
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors and UNICEF's total income for 2006 was $2,781,000,000. Governments contribute... Read more
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René Cassin is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French-Jewish jurist, law professor and judge. A French soldier in... Read more
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International Labour Organization (I.L.O.) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In structure, the ILO is unique among world organizations in that the representatives of the workers and of the employers have an equal voice with... Read more
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Norman Borlaug is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been deemed the... Read more
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Ralph Bunche Dies
American diplomat Ralph Bunche, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, died on December 9, 1971 in New York City. Bunche was born in Detroit,... Read more
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Willy Brandt is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
A seminal moment came in December 1970 with the famous Warschauer Kniefall in which Brandt, apparently spontaneously, knelt down at the monument to... Read more
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Henry A. Kissinger and Lê Ðức Thọ are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, although Lê Ðức Thọ Declined to Accept
Along with North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1973, for their work in... Read more
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Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1973 he was elected by the General Assembly to the post of High Commissioner for Namibia, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. The... Read more
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Andrei Sakharov is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов) (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist,... Read more
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Amnesty International is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty and AI) is an international secular non-governmental organisation which defines its mission as "to... Read more
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Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan are Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize
Betty Williams (born 22 May 1943) was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of... Read more
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Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Never previously in the history of the Peace Prize, stretching back over a period of almost eighty years, have we witnessed an award ceremony such... Read more
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Mother Teresa is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒe bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Albanian Roman... Read more
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
He has devoted many years of his life to the cause of human rights in Argentina and the whole of Latin America. He is an untiring and... Read more
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
UNHCR was established on December 14, 1951 and succeeded the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The agency is... Read more
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Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles have, in the opinion of the Committee, proved outstanding candidates for two reasons. In the first place... Read more
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Lech Walesa is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lech Walesa has made the name "Solidarity" more than an expression of the unity of a group campaigning for special interests. Solidarity has come... Read more
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Desmond Tutu is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of... Read more
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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
It is in this connection that this year's Peace Prize laureate, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, has, in the opinion... Read more
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Elie Wiesel is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928) is a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the... Read more
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Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez (born 13 September 1940) is a Costa Rican politician who has been President of Costa Rica since 2006. He... Read more
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United Nations Peacekeeping Forces is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
As The Korean War entered a cease-fire in 1953, UN forces remained along the south side of demilitarized zone until 1967, when American and South... Read more
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The 14th Dalai Lama is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub) (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-'grub; Chinese: 拉莫顿珠) (born 6... Read more
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Mikhail Gorbachev is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has made this award in recognition of the leading role he has played in the radical changes that have taken place in... Read more
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Aung San Suu Kyi is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
We are assembled here today to honour Aung San Suu Kyi for her outstanding work for democracy and human rights, and to present to her the Nobel... Read more
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