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for its long-standing efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through survivor testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again, as well as for its extraordinary contribution to establishing the nuclear taboo

for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all

Narges Mohammadi

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

for representing civil society in their home countries, for many years promoting the right to criticise those in power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens, and for their outstanding efforts to document war crimes, human-rights abuses and abuses of power, thereby demonstrating the importance of civil society for peace and democracy

Ales Bialiatski

Belarus

Center for Civil Liberties

Ukraine

Memorial

Russian Federation

for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace

Dmitry Muratov

Russian Federation

Maria Ressa

Philippines

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

World Food Programme

World

for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea

Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia

for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict

Denis Mukwege

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Nadia Murad

Iraq

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

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Switzerland

for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia

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

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

Tunisia

for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

Kailash Satyarthi

India

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan

for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons

for over six decades of contributions to peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe

European Union

European Union

for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia

Leymah Gbowee

Liberia

Tawakkol Karman

Yemen

for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China

Liu Xiaobo

China

for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, and for giving people around the world hope for a better future

Barack Obama

United States of America

for his efforts to resolve the armed conflict in Aceh, Indonesia

Martti Ahtisaari

Finland

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

Al Gore

United States of America

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

World

for their contribution to building the economic and social foundations of the poor through bottom-up development initiatives

Grameen Bank

Bangladesh

Muhammad Yunus

Bangladesh

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

International Atomic Energy Agency

World

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

Wangari Maathai

Kenya

for her efforts for democracy and human rights, with particular focus on the struggle for the rights of women and children

Shirin Ebadi

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development

Jimmy Carter

United States of America

for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

Kofi Annan

Ghana

United Nations

World

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

Korea (the Republic of)

in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents, in Africa, Asia, and South America

for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland

David Trimble

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

John Hume

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel landmines

International Campaign to Ban Landmines

World

Jody Williams

United States of America

for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Timor-Leste

José Ramos-Horta

Timor-Leste

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

Joseph Rotblat

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

World