Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Weapons Watchdog

A global chemical weapons watchdog based in the Hague has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has handed the award to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."

The OPCW was founded in 1997 to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention signed on January 13, 1993.

Its work is currently in the spotlight, as it is supervising the dismantling of Syria's chemical arsenal and facilities under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution.

A team of around 30 OPCW arms experts and UN logistics and security personnel are on the ground in Syria and have started to destroy weapons production facilities.

Footage of their work has been shown on Syrian television.

Inspectors at a chemical weapons facility in Syria

The OPCW said on Tuesday it was sending a second wave of inspectors to bolster the disarmament mission in the war-ravaged nation.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban, was among those tipped to lift the peace prize.

Had the 16-year-old won, she would have become the youngest-ever Nobel laureate.

On Thursday she was named as the winner of the EU's Sakharov prize, which is considered Europe's top human rights accolade.

Previous Nobel peace prize laureates include Nelson Mandela, US President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In 2012 the prize was awarded to the European Union in recognition of its contribution to peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

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