2024 Nobel Peace Prize

2024 Nobel Peace Prize
Nihon Hidankyo
"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."[1][2]
Date
  • 11 October 2024
    (announcement)
  • 10 December 2024
    (ceremony)
LocationOslo, Norway
Presented byNorwegian Nobel Committee
Reward(s)11.0 million SEK
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, an international peace prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will,[3] was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), for their activism against nuclear weapons, assisted by victim/survivors (known as Hibakusha) of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.[4] They will receive the prize at a ceremony on 10 December 2024 at Oslo, Norway.

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  2. ^ "Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 – Nobel Peace Prize". Norwegian Nobel Committee. 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  3. ^ "Alfred Nobel will". Nobel Foundation. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  4. ^ Vestrum Olsson, Svein; et al. (11 October 2024). "Organisasjonen Nihon Hidankyō får Nobels fredspris for 2024" [The organization Nihon Hidankyō receives the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024]. NRK Nyheter (in Norwegian). Oslo: NRK. Archived from the original on 11 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.