The last fifteen Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Nobel Peace Prize: The last fifteen winners -

Each year, the Nobel Peace Prize rewards "the personality or the community having contributed the most or the best to the rapprochement of peoples, to the suppression or reduction of standing armies, to the assembly and propagation of progress for peace. »According to the will of Alfred Nobel.

Created in 1901, it is today awarded to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), headquartered in Rome.

Founded in 1961 and funded entirely by voluntary contributions, the UN body says it distributed 15 billion rations and assisted 97 million people in 88 countries last year.

The Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus, the American Barack Obama, and the Chinese Liu Xiaobo are part of the long list of previous laureates.

From 2005 to today, here are the last fifteen Nobel Peace Prize winners, in pictures.

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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United Nations World Food Program

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The Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Briton Michael Houghton and Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice

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