Nobel Prize awarded organisations

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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 30 times to organisations between 1901 and 2023. 27 individual organisations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has received the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1954 and 1981, and the work of Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) (ICRC) has been honoured three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963.

2022

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022

“The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy”
“The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy”

2020

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020

“for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”

2017

The Nobel Peace Prize 2017

“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”

2015

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015

“for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”

2013

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013

“for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”

2012

The Nobel Peace Prize 2012

“for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”

2007

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007

“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”

2006

The Nobel Peace Prize 2006

“for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”

2005

The Nobel Peace Prize 2005

“for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”

2001

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001

“for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”

1999

The Nobel Peace Prize 1999

“in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”

1997

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997

“for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”

1995

The Nobel Peace Prize 1995

“for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”

1988

The Nobel Peace Prize 1988

“for preventing armed clashes and creating conditions for negotiations”

1985

The Nobel Peace Prize 1985

“for spreading authoritative information and by creating awareness of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war”

1981

1977

The Nobel Peace Prize 1977

“for worldwide respect for human rights”

1969

The Nobel Peace Prize 1969

“for creating international legislation insuring certain norms for working conditions in every country”

1965

The Nobel Peace Prize 1965

“for its effort to enhance solidarity between nations and reduce the difference between rich and poor states”

1963

The Nobel Peace Prize 1963

“for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN”
“for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN”

1954

The Nobel Peace Prize 1954

“for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world”

1947

The Nobel Peace Prize 1947

“for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations”
“for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations”

1944

The Nobel Peace Prize 1944

“for the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity”

1938

The Nobel Peace Prize 1938

“for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe”

1917

The Nobel Peace Prize 1917

“for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families”

1910

The Nobel Peace Prize 1910

“for acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries, and helping them to organize the world rallies of the international peace movement”

1904

The Nobel Peace Prize 1904

“for its striving in public law to develop peaceful ties between nations and to make the laws of war more humane”

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