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Michael Howie and Sami Quadri

Nobel Peace Prize 2024 goes to Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group Nihon Hidankyo

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In its citation on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the group was recognised “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”.

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