BBCNihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has gained the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Committee Chair Joergen Watne Frydnes praised the “extraordinary efforts” to “obtain a world freed from nuclear weapons”.
The winner was introduced at a ceremony in Oslo on Friday, the place Mr Frydnes mentioned the group had “contributed enormously to the institution of the nuclear taboo”.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group’s use of witness testimony to make sure nuclear weapons mustn’t ever be used once more.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute mentioned 286 candidates had been nominated for this 12 months’s peace prize, a quantity comprising 197 people and 89 organisations.
Nominations may be made by folks in positions of great authority, together with members of nationwide assemblies, governments and worldwide courts of regulation.
Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi gained the prize in 2023, when she was honoured for her work preventing the oppression of ladies in Iran.
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