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  Nobel Prize 6 Oct 2005  
Looking back at the women who have won

It's one hundred years since Baroness Bertha von Suttner became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. Since then twelve women have won it - two of them, Wangari Maathai of Kenya and Shirin Ebadi of Iran, within the last two years. 

As the Nobel committee announces this years winner, Judy Merry looks back at some of the women who have won the prize

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