Nobel Prize for Peace 2024 - Nihon Hidankyo (Japan)

Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at an ICAN event in Hiroshima in 2011
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The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers, shortened to Nihon Hidankyo, is a grassroots movement representing the Hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The organisation is led by Terumi Tanaka, a Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and Hibakusha himself. 

They were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work towards achieving a world free of nuclear weapons, and for promoting the social and economic rights of all nuclear weapons victims. Through the recording of witness testimonies, governmental lobbying, public appeals, and sending delegates to important international events, they promote global nuclear disarmament and raise awareness of the dire humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.

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