Past prize winners
The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded on Friday to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has a long history of recognizing institutions since it made its first award in 1901.
The International Committee of the Red Cross tops the list of institutional laureates with three wins: in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was honored in 1954 and 1981.
Here is a list of the institutions that have won the prize:
1904: Institute of International Law
1910: Permanent International Peace Bureau
1917: International Committee of the Red Cross
1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
1944: International Committee of the Red Cross
1947: Friends Service Council (The Quakers), American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1954: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1963: International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies
1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1969: International Labor Organization
1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1995: The Pugwash Movement
1997: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines
1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
2001: Kofi Annan (Ghana) and the United Nations
2005: International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohammed ElBaradei (Egypt)
2007: The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2012: The European Union
2013: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
AFP
(China Daily 10/12/2013 page8)