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China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-12 07:10

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)

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