Official announcement from the Nobel Committee

Nihon Hidankyo, Hibakusha, Win 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Weapons Activism

Oct 11, 2024, 09:11 AM

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized the group's efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and honored the survivors, known as Hibakusha, for their activism against nuclear weapons. The committee highlighted the importance of their witness testimony, which emphasizes the need to prevent the use of nuclear weapons in the future. This recognition comes as the world approaches the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, which killed an estimated 120,000 people initially, with a comparable number dying from burn and radiation injuries in the following months and years.