Nobel Peace Prize 2017 awarded to anti-nuclear campaign ICAN
The Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2017 has been awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for “its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons,” in Oslo.
Announcing the Laureates, Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said,
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The Nobel Committee emphasizes that the next steps towards attaining a world free of nuclear weapons must involve the nuclear-armed states.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2017
Nobel Committee: ICAN has in the past year given the efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons a new direction and new vigour.
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The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 9 million Swedish Kronor, will be presented in Oslo.
You can read about the details The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 here
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