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Nihon Hidankyo is awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize 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
Nobel Peace Prize for 2024
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating ...
About the Nobel Peace Prize
Since World War II, the Peace Prize has principally been awarded to honour efforts in four main areas: arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world.
Laureates - Nobel Peace Prize
Ales Bialiatski , Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties. Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
History - Nobel Peace Prize
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. The Peace Prize for that year was shared between the Frenchman Frédéric Passy and the Swiss Jean Henry Dunant. The Nobel Peace Prize and the other Nobel Prizes were established by the Swedish inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel through his last will.
Nobel Peace Prize for 2022
Oct 7, 2022 · By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 to Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honour three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful co-existence in the neighbour countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements - Nobel Peace Prize
Feb 15, 2024 · This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 7-14 October. All of the prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published at www.nobelprize.org. The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2024 prize decisions ...
2022 - Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right …
Why Norway? - Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel may have been aware of the strong interest of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) in the peaceful solution of international disputes in the 1890s. He might have in fact, considered Norway a more peace-oriented and more democratic country than Sweden.
Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Mar 1, 2022 · Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022. There are 343 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organizations. 343 candidates are more than last year (329) and the second highest number of candidates ever.