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In this post I will talk about an specific Nobel Peace Prize Winner. I've chosen the winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 2013, OPCW, because I think that the work that they do is very important in our society.
First of all the Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
So in this post I will talk about Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. It had been awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded the prize, because they “have defined the use of chemical weapons as taboo under international law. Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons.”
It is located in The Hague,Netherlands.The organisation promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction. The verification consists both of evaluation of declarations by member states and on-site inspections. The OPCW, which has 500 staff, is the 25th institution among the 94 winners in the prize's history, and the second in succession, after the controversial choice of the EU in 2012.
Member States have many Obligations, so each country that belongs to the OPCW must: destroy all chemical weapons it owns or possesses; destroy all chemical weapons it may have abandoned in another country and destroy facilities it owns or possesses which were involved in the production of chemical weapons.
