The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize for its work and contribution to the effort to abolish nuclear weapons.
In particular, the organization received the award, “for his efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for proving through witness testimony that nuclear weapons should never be used again».
The Nihon Hidankyo movement is an organization of survivors of the nuclear bombs dropped during World War II on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While it is also known as Hibakusha.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its… pic.twitter.com/YVXwnwVBQO— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 11, 2024
The prize carries a cash prize of 11 million Swedish kroner ($1.1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Along with the cash prize, the winners will also be given a medal on December 10.
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and is the only one awarded in the Norwegian capital, the others being announced in Stockholm.
It is recalled that on Thursday, October 10, Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her intense poetic prose that deals with historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
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The announcements for the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on October 14.
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