The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese atomic bomb survivor movement Nihon Hidankyo

The committee chair, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, described Nihon Hidankyo as “a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha”.

It was was receiving the 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”, he said.