The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP), the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
The food-assistance agency of the United Nations was awarded “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,” the committee explained.
The United Nations agency is the largest humanitarian organization that addresses hunger and promotes food security.
On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus. Tuesday’s prize for physics honored breakthroughs in understanding the mysteries of cosmic black holes, and the chemistry prize on Wednesday went to scientists behind a powerful gene-editing tool. The literature prize was awarded to American poet Louise Glückon Thursday for her “candid and uncompromising” work.
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