Nobel Peace Prize

I can international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear
weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”

RECENT LAUREATES

2016 Juan ManuelSantosColombia
2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet 
2014 Kailash Satyarthi India 
     Malala Yousafzay  Pakistan
2013 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
2012 European Union
2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia
     Leymah Gbowee Liberia
     Tawakkul Karman Yemen
2010 Liu Xiaobo China
2009 Barack Obama U.S.
2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Al Gore

Source: Nobelprize.org
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