Summary
- The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Nihon Hidankyo works towards a world free of nuclear weapons and promotes the social and economic rights of all survivors.
- Through witness testimony, the organization generates opposition to nuclear weapons and educates about their destructive nature.
- U.N. Secretary General António Guterres praised Nihon Hidankyo as crucial in the global disarmament movement.