Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivor organization Nihon Hidankyo

Japanese atomic weaponry subsister enactment Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize connected Friday successful designation of the organization's efforts to execute a satellite escaped of atomic weapons.

"This grassroots question of atomic weaponry survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, besides known arsenic Hibakusha, is receiving the bid prize for its efforts to execute a satellite escaped of atomic weapons and for demonstrating done witnesser grounds that atomic weapons indispensable ne'er beryllium utilized again," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said successful a statement.

The awards committee said that the grassroots movement, which was established successful 1956 successful effect to the atomic weaponry attacks of August 1945, had "worked tirelessly" to rise consciousness astir the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of utilizing atomic weapons.

"The bonzer efforts of Nihon Hidankyo and different representatives of the Hibakusha person contributed greatly to the constitution of the atomic taboo. It is truthful alarming that contiguous this taboo against the usage of atomic weapons is nether pressure," the committee said.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute said 286 candidates were registered to beryllium considered for this year's prize, of which 197 were individuals and 89 were organizations.

Winners of the Nobel Prize typically receive 11 cardinal Swedish krona ($1.06 million), though aggregate winners stock the sum.

Iranian quality rights activistic Narges Mohammadi received the Nobel Peace Prize successful 2023 for "her combat against the oppression of women successful Iran and her combat to beforehand quality rights and state for all," the awards committee said astatine the time.

Mohammadi, who is known for her enactment arsenic lawman manager and spokesperson of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, was reportedly sentenced successful June to an further twelvemonth successful situation implicit her activism.

Iran's authorities did not admit her further sentencing astatine the time, according to The Associated Press.

The Defenders of the Human Rights Center is an enactment that promotes quality rights and advocates for escaped and just elections and the owed process of law. It was cofounded by Shirin Ebadi, the lone different Iranian to person been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.