Noble Peace Prize Winners: Our Heros

Here are a few of our heroes and heroines who have made the world a whole
lot safer for international travelers. A select few former Nobel Peace Prize winners:

2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) & Al Gore

2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank

2005: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) & Mohamed ElBaradei

2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya

2003: Shirin Ebadi: Iran

2002: Jimmy Carter: United States of America

2001: Kofi Annan & The United Nations

2000: Kim Dae Jung: South Korea

1999: Medicines sans Frontiers/Doctors without Borders

1998: David Hume & David Trimble: Northern Ireland

1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines & Jody Williams

1996: Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo & Jose Ramos-Horta: East Timor

1995: Joseph Rotblat & Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

1994: Yassar Arafat, Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin: Middle East

1993: Nelson Mandela & Fredrik Willem de Klerk: South Africa

1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum: Guatemala

1991: Aung san Suu Kyi: Burma

1990: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

1989: The 14^th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso: Tibet

1988: United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces

1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez: Central America

1986: Elie Wiesel: Holocaust

1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu: South Africa

1983: Lech Walesa: Poland

1982: Alva Mydral & Alfonso Garcia Robles: Disarmament

1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Argentina

1979: Mother Teresa: India

1978: Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat & Meneachem Begin: Middle East

1977: Amnesty International

1976: Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan: Northern Ireland

1975: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov: USSR

1974: Sean Mac Bride: Namibia & Eisaku Sato: Japan

1973: Le Duc Tho & Henry A. Kissinger: Vietnam

1971: Willy Brandt: West Germany

1970: Norman Borlaug: Mexico

1969: International Labour Organization

1968: Rene Cassin: Human Rights

1964: Martin Luther King Jr: USA

1963: International Committee of the Red Cross & League of Red Cross Societies

1962: Linus Carl Pauling: USA

1961: Dar Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold:

1960: Albert John Lutuli: South Africa

1959: Philip J. Noel-Baker: England

1958: Georges Henri Pire: Belgium

1957: Lester Bowles Pearson: Canada

1952: Albert Schweitzer: Africa

1919: Woodrow Wilson: USA