Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Assistant Secretary General of Nihon Hidankyo and atomic bomb survivor Masako Wada arrives to attends a conference on nuclear disarmament, at the Vatican, Friday, November 10, 2017. Ninon Hidankyo has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Picture: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of survivors of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapon is under pressure”.