who won the nobel peace prize in 2007?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Al Gore
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 The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo " for his long and non @-@ violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China " . The laureate , once an eminent scholar , was reportedly little @-@ known inside the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) at the time of the award due to official censorship ; he is a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , and a co @-@ author of the Charter 08 manifesto for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison on 25 December 2009 . Liu , who was backed by Václav Havel and Desmond Tutu , received the award among a record field of more than 200 nominees . 

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 Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the former Czech President Václav Havel , with fellow Cuban dissidents Raul Rivero and Óscar Elías Biscet 

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 The award ceremony , held as planned in Oslo City Hall on the afternoon of 10 December , was attended by about 1 @,@ 000 VIPs , diplomats and guests . Representing Norway were King Harald V , Queen Sonja and a number of politicians and officials ; among the 48 foreign dignitaries was the US House Speaker , Nancy Pelosi . The Chinese group was 46 @-@ strong , and included astrophysicist Professor Fang Lizhi , Yang Jianli , and exiled former Tiananmen student leaders Chai Ling , Wu 'erkaixi , Feng Congde , and Fang Zheng , whose legs were crushed by a tank ; the Hong Kong delegation comprised Albert Ho , Emily Lau , and Lee Cheuk @-@ yan . Outside the hall , pro @-@ democracy and human rights activists demonstrated ; about 50 China supporters held a protest outside the Norwegian Parliament . 

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 The Ambassador of Conscience Award , Amnesty International 's most prestigious human rights award , takes its inspiration from a poem written by Irish Nobel prize @-@ winning poet Seamus Heaney called " The Republic of Conscience . " Winners of the award have included : Malala Yousafzai , singer and social justice activist Harry Belafonte , musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ) , Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ) , the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ) , Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women 's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ) . 

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 Among the most criticised Nobel Peace Prizes was the one awarded to Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ . This led to the resignation of two Norwegian Nobel Committee members . Lê Đức Thọ declined the prize . Kissinger and Thọ were awarded the prize for negotiating a ceasefire between North Vietnam and the United States in January 1973 . However , when the award was announced , both sides were still engaging in hostilities . Many critics were of the opinion that Kissinger was not a peace @-@ maker but the opposite , responsible for widening the war . 
