The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”. The United Nations and its ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

Annan won the biannual Zayed International Prize for the Environment for being the “one person who has done more than most to catalyze political and public opinion” for environmental ...