The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese NGO Nihon Hidankyo in recognition of its efforts to promote a world free of nuclear weapons.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the NGO for its "efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating, through witness testimony, that nuclear weapons must never be used again," as highlighted in the official citation.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its "efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again," according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation.
The committee further emphasized that "Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witness accounts, issued resolutions and public appeals, and sent annual delegations to the United Nations and various peace conferences to remind the world of the urgent need for nuclear disarmament."
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Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha, formed in response to the atomic bombings of August 1945.
Amid ongoing global conflicts, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted that this award reinforces the "nuclear taboo." In its press release, the committee emphasized, "At this moment in human history, it is important to remind ourselves what nuclear weapons are: the most destructive weapons the world has ever seen."