2024 Nobel Peace Prize

2024 Nobel Peace Prize
Nihon Hidankyo
"for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."
Date
  • 11 October 2024
    (announcement)
  • 10 December 2024
    (ceremony)
LocationOslo, Norway
Presented byNorwegian Nobel Committee
Reward(s)11.0 million SEK
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, an international peace prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will, was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), for their activism against nuclear weapons, assisted by victim/survivors (known as Hibakusha) of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. They received the prize at a ceremony on 10 December 2024 in Oslo, Norway.