The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese Nihon Hidankyo movement. The Nobel Committee reports this.
“They inspire and inform people around the world. And they create the basis for the future existence of humanity in security conditions.” – said a representative of the committee, announcing the winners.
He noted that Nihon Hidankyo advocates for a world without nuclear weapons as nuclear powers develop their capabilities.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 104 times since 1901. This year, 286 candidates applied for the prize. Notably among this year’s candidates was the former president of the United States. donald trump and the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg.
As reported EADailyNobel Peace Prize in 2023 awarded to an Iranian human rights activist Nargiz Mohammadiwho fights for women’s rights in Iran and for equal rights and freedoms for all citizens of the country. At the time of the adjudication, Mohammadi was in prison.
In total, the regime arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes, the committee said. He currently remains in prison and his 17-year-old twins received the Nobel Prize in Oslo in December 2023.
