Chemical weapon watchdog wins Nobel

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