Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes (L), announces the anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo as the laureate of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize during a press conference at The Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway on October 11, 2024. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. [AFP]

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha.

The group, founded in 1956, received the honour "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," said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.