The Nobel Peace Prize

1999-2009
 The Nobel Peace Prize that
 The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian
languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the
five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the
Swedish industrialist and inventor
Alfred Nobel.
 First awarded1901
 The nobel peace prize
-1999 Médicos Sin Fronteras
– 2000 Kim Dae-Jung ( Corea del Sur)
– 2001 Kofi Annan ( Ghana) y Organización de las Naciones Unidas
– 2002 Jimmy Carter ( Estados Unidos))
– 2003 Shirin Ebadi ( Irán)
– 2004 Wangari Maathai ( Kenia)
– 2005 Mohamed el-Baradei ( Egipto) y
Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica
– 2006 Muhammad Yunus ( Bangladesh) y Banco Grameen
– 2007 Al Gore ( Estados Unidos) y
Grupo Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático de la O.N.U..
– 2008 Martti Ahtisaari ( Finlandia)
– 2009 Barack Obama ( Estados Unidos)
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 Doctors Without Borders.

 Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres in French original,

commonly abbreviated MSF) is an NGO founded in France in 1971 by a group
of physicians with the idea that everyone is entitled to medical care regardless
of their social and the country where you live.
Doctors Without Borders.
 It is devoted mainly to help people in precarious situations and victims of
conflict, famine and natural disasters. His medical experience began in the
Biafran War (1968 - 1969) in the apparatus of the International Red Cross
 She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. The Norwegian Nobel
committee awarded him for pioneering humanitarian work on several
continents.
 Currently it has nearly 4 million [1] of partners, two thousand volunteers
working on humanitarian programs in seventy countries and another thousand
in administrative tasks. Prevents and treats diseases such as tuberculosis,
AIDS and meningitis.
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 Kim dae-jung; in Hanja 金大中 ] (Haui-do, January 6,
1924 [1] - Seoul, 18 August 2009), was a South Korean
politician who became president of his country and was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2000.
 In the same 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Peace "for his work for democracy and human rights in
South Korea and in East Asia in general and for peace and
reconciliation with North Korea , in particular
 Kim Dae Jung took office amid a serious economic crisis,
but managed to revitalizing the economy, becoming one of
the fastest growing countries of the moment.
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 Kofi Atta Annan (born Kumasi, Ghana, April 8,
1938) was the seventh Secretary General of the
United Nations, a position he held from 1997 to
2006 and was awarded with the UN, with the Nobel
Kofi Annan
Peace Prize 2001
 He spoke repeatedly to actively fight against AIDS,
becoming a high priority for their governments.
Together with the UN itself received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2001 for his work for a better
organized and more peaceful world.
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 James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born 1 October 1924), is a
Democratic politician who was the thirty-ninth president of the United States
(1977-1981), governor of Georgia (1971 -- 1975) and senator in the Georgia
General Assembly (1962-1966). Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in
2002, awarded for his tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international
conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to foster economic and
political development of peoples.
Jimmy Carter
 His term was marked by major successes in foreign policy, including treaties on
the Panama Canal, the peace accords at Camp David (peace treaty between
Egypt and Israel), the SALT II treaty with the USSR and the establishment of
diplomatic relations with the PRC. In domestic policy, his government created
the ministries of energy and education, and enhanced environmental protection
legislation.

 Since leaving the White House has engaged in a work of mediation in

international conflicts and to put its prestige at the service of humanitarian
causes. It has also been distinguished in literature, is the author of numerous
books.
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 Shirin Ebadi (‫ شیرین عبادی‬in Persian) (born on 21 June 1947 in Hamadan,
Iran) is a lawyer and activist for human rights and democracy. On 10 October
2003 received the Nobel Peace Prize. It was the first Iranian and first Muslim
woman to receive this award.
 Iran these days lives in a critical moment in its history: the demonstrations in
protest against the manipulation of election results have launched the
repressive apparatus of government while they have discovered the power of a
large fraction of civil society prone to opening of the regime. Times have
changed, but the press takes a collective sense to comparing with the spirit that
thirty years ago consolidated the Islamic revolution. To mark this anniversary
visited the University of Seville the Nobel Peace Prize Shirin Ebadi, an example
of Iranian society is active and standard bearer for human rights in his country.
"Theses" in this edition offers an interview with Ebadi: one of the first women
judges in Iran, to put in place after the revolution Khomeini's government, was
relegated to administrative posts in the courthouse where he worked. After
years of seclusion at home, Shirin Ebadi returned to law with the firm intention
of fighting for the rights of women, children and ideological prisoners in Iran.
Despite the obstacles, Shirin Ebadi has never been tempted into exile: a
symbol of the fight from within.
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 Wangari Muta Maathai (born 1 April 1940 in Nyieri, Kenya) is a Kenyan
environmental and political activist. In 2004 he received the Nobel Peace Prize
for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." It is
the first African woman to receive this award. Dr. Maathai is also an elected
member of parliament and Minister of Environment and Natural Resources in
the government led by Mwai Kibaki.
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 "Maathai endured with courage the former oppressive regime in Kenya," said
the Norwegian Nobel Committee in his reading to proclaim the winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize 2004. "Her unique forms of action have contributed to pay
attention to political oppression, nationally and internationally. It has been well
of inspiration for many in the struggle for democratic rights and has especially
encouraged women to improve their situation."
 Maathai was a stir among the media when, in the press conference that
followed the announcement of the prize, he suggested that the HIV virus that
causes AIDS was the product of genetic engineering and was later released in
Africa by Western scholars not identified as a weapon of mass destruction to
"punish blacks." Only a small minority supports this conspiracy theory of AIDS,
which is not unique. He has since softened its stance nuanced.
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 Mohamed ElBaradei (Arabic: ‫( )محمد البرادعي‬b. 17 June 1942 in
Egypt), diplomat, is the Director General of International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization under the auspices
of the United Nations. Along with the IAEA, was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize 2005.
 Elected for two consecutive terms, at present the IAEA and ElBaradei
are engaged in two major international processes: the control of the
production of uranium by Iran is reluctant to give explanations to the
Agency, and the output of the Treaty Nuclear Nonproliferation in North
Korea where you suspect the possibility that material has been
obtained for any number of atomic weapons. In both cases the United
States is contrary to policy aims ElBaradei and his non-reelection.
On 7 October 2005 was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize with the IAEA in "recognition of his efforts to prevent proliferation
of nuclear weapons.
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 Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Bengali: মুহামদ ইউনুস, pronounced Muhammôd Iunūs)
(Chittagong, June 28, 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. It is the
developer of the concept of microcredit (devised by Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan
Pakistan). Microloans are small loans to humble people who can not apply for a
traditional bank loan. Founder of Grameen Bank, was awarded the Prince of
Asturias Award for Concord in 1998, International Simón Bolívar Prize in 1996
and the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 "for its efforts to encourage economic and
social development from below"
 On 1 December 2005, the Foundation for Justice awarded the V Foundation for
Justice Award, given as the first Millennium Development Goal of eradicating
poverty, had declared 2005 as International Year of Microcredit, and the
transcendence that for an effective defense of Human Rights is the project
designed by Professor Muhammad Yunus with the quest for universal justice,
the jury determined unanimously consider the candidature of Professor
Muhammad Yunus as the best among the excellent 59 applications submitted.
On 13 October 2006, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank received the
Nobel Peace Prize 2006 for his struggle to achieve economic justice for the
poor classes. This award gave him a total of 1,100,000 € to go to charity
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 Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. or Al Gore (Washington DC, March 31, 1948) is an American politician and
environmentalist.
It was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States under President Bill Clinton and candidate for
the presidency in 2000, when he lost the presidential election to George Walker Bush. In 2007 he
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the thinking and global action on climate
change, and the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.
In 2006 she starred in the Oscar-winning documentary: An Inconvenient Truth, it comes to climate
change, which blames people, their governments and industries that generate it, and urged to
undertake a journey in search of clean energy to prevent the destruction of planet.
Al and Tipper Gore are currently living in Nashville. They have four children: Karenna (1973), Kristin
(1977), Sarah (1979) and Albert III (1982). They also have two grandchildren: Anna and Wyatt.
 He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) of the UN "for its efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about climate change
caused by the American man and set the stage for taking whatever steps are needed to counteract
such change "[2].
Many analysts see in this award, a stroke of European elites to the Bush administration in
Washington. For example World Socialist Web Site concluded that he had never seen such an open
intervention of European leaders in the internal politics of the United States
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 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (* 23 June 1937 -) is a Finnish
politician, tenth President of Finland (1994-2000) and
Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
 Ahtisaari was the special envoy of the UN in the process of
Kosovo status negotiations aimed at resolving the long
conflict in the territory that declared independence from
Serbia in 2008. The same year he was awarded an
honorary doctorate by the University College London. He
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 "for his
important efforts, on several continents and over three
decades, seeking to resolve international conflicts".
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 Barak obama, Barack Hussein Obama II [1] (born in Honolulu, USA, August 4, 1961) is
the forty-fourth and current president of the United States of America. [2] Obama was
senator from Illinois since 3 January 2005 until his resignation on 16 November 2008. [3]
In addition, is the fifth African-American legislator in the United States Senate, third from
the era of reconstruction. It was also the first black candidate the Democratic Party and is
the first to carry the presidential office.
 On 9 October 2009, the leader Thorbjørn Jagland Nobel Committee announced that the
Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to President Barack Obama "for his efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" standing out for its
"vision a world without nuclear weapons. "[225] Obama was one of the 205 nominations,
and won a gold medal, a diploma and $ 1.4 million. [226] On 10 December of that year,
attended the ceremony for the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, where he accepted his award
and expressed "profound gratitude and great humility." [227]
Obama is the third president of the United States who was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize during his tenure, the other two winners were Theodore Roosevelt who won the
award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson who won in 1919. Other winners of the Nobel Peace
Prize was former President Jimmy Carter in 2002, former Vice President Charles Dawes
in 1925, and former Vice President Al Gore, who shared the award in 2007 with the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC , by its initials in English) United
Nations