Nobel Increases Pressure on States to Join Nuclear Weapons Ban

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Atomic bomb survivors from Japan rally opposite the United Nations in New York during a meeting of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, November 2023. © 2023 Darren Ornitz/International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo acknowledges the central role of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in working to eradicate nuclear weapons. Their resilience and determination have ensured the work to ban nuclear weapons will continue.The 2017 Treaty on…

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