The Nobel Peace Prize in 2024 was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo.
This organization brings together survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The award was given for “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating evidence that nuclear weapons should never be used again.” This was reported on October 11 on the official website of the Nobel Committee.
In response to the atomic bomb attacks, a movement emerged in August 1945 that continually worked to raise awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. Gradually, a powerful international norm emerged that stigmatized the use of nuclear weapons as morally unacceptable. This norm became known as the nuclear taboo, the report says.
As you know, Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese Confederation of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Victims’ Organizations) is a group formed by victims of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1956. The goal of this association is to put pressure on the Japanese government to improve support for victims and lobby the government to abolish nuclear weapons.
Recall that on October 10, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang for her deeply poetic prose that challenges historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life.
Source: Racurs
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