Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace announced the awards on Friday.
The Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo is awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for 2024 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 Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize… pic.twitter.com/UjSzVGVVr9
— Nobel Peace Center (@NobelPeaceOslo) October 11, 2024
This Japanese organisation is working for the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
The #NobelPeacePrize 2024 is awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo
#NihonHidankyo #NobelPeacePrize2024 #NorwegianNobelCommittee pic.twitter.com/oxMgBpq9ah
— Nobel Peace Center (@NobelPeaceOslo) October 11, 2024
“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 efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Nobel Prize X handle posted.
About Nihon Hidankyo
The Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo is awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for 2024 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
— Nobel Peace Center (@NobelPeaceOslo) October 11, 2024
It is the most powerful and influential organisation of atomic bomb survivors and was formed in 1956.
Its mission has been to raise global awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.
The organisation shares their personal stories of the devastation they experienced in August 1945.
The Hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – have helped shape the international “nuclear taboo,” a powerful norm stigmatising the use of nuclear arms as morally unacceptable.
