The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for its work to combat hunger and foster peace. The WFP is the latest in a string of UN bodies and officials to have won the prestigious prize since the organisation's creation in 1945. In 2001, the United Nations itself won the award together with then-secretary general Kofi Annan. Here is a list of UN bodies and officials who have won the Nobel Peace Prize: 2020: World Food Programme (WFP) 2007: Al Gore (US) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2005: UN International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) 2001: Kofi Annan (Ghana) and the United Nations 1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1969: International Labour Organization 1965: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 1961: Dag Hammarskjoeld (Sweden), UN secretary general 1954: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees 1950: Ralph Bunche (US), UN mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict 1949: Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin (Britain), director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization jll/po/bp