The Japanese anti-nuclear organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki — also known as the Hibakusha — has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
The aging survivors of the two nuclear detonations, known as “hibakusha,” continue to campaign for a nuclear arms ban as they push to keep alive their efforts among younger generations.
Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure.”
Watne Frydnes said the award was made to the group “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.”
The prize was awarded in Oslo, the only one of the Nobel prizes not to be awarded in Stockholm.
It was announced against a backdrop of devastating conflicts, notably in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan.
Notable Nobel Peace laureates include imprisoned who was awarded the prize last year, and human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, who were collectively awarded the prize in 2022.
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