It has become known who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

It became known who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Sofia Rozhik

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded/Collage 24 Channel

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo. This is a mass movement of people who survived the atomic bomb from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The nominee was named on Friday, October 11. This was reported on the official Nobel Peace Prize page in X.

What is known about Nihon Hidankyo

Members of the Nihon Hidankyo organization are called “hibakusha”, which translates as “people exposed to the explosion”. The movement was founded in August 1945 and has been actively working to raise awareness of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons ever since.

That is why the organization received the Peace Prize for its efforts against nuclear weapons.

This mass movement of people… receives the Peace Prize for its efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons, for demonstrating through eyewitness testimony that nuclear weapons should never be used again. And also for demonstrating, through eyewitness testimony, that nuclear weapons can never be used again, the organizing committee reported.

Recall that the Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious international awards, awarded annually for outstanding scientific research, revolutionary inventions, or significant contributions to culture or the development of society. Its size is approximately 1.1 million dollars.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Literature have already been determined. And on October 14, the name of the person who will receive the prize in the Economy of Memory will be announced.