Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo
On 11 October 2024, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Summary
On 11 October 2024, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 for the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. The prize recognises its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. Nihon Hidankyo, the shortened Japanese name of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations, was formed in 1956. The Committee credited the Hibakusha with helping establish the international norm against using nuclear weapons, known as 'the nuclear taboo'.
Key facts
- Date / place
- 11 Oct 2024, Oslo
- Laureate
- Nihon Hidankyo (Japan)
- Who
- Hibakusha: atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Full name
- Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations
- Formed
- 1956
- Awarded by
- Norwegian Nobel Committee
Practice MCQs 4 questions
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024, announced on 11 October 2024?
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Correct answer: B — Nihon Hidankyo
Norwegian Nobel Committee (Oslo, 11 Oct 2024): the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 is awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo.
The term 'Hibakusha', associated with the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 laureate, refers to whom?
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Correct answer: C — Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nobel press release (11 Oct 2024): Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha.
In which year was Nihon Hidankyo, the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 laureate, formed?
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Correct answer: D — 1956
Nobel press release (11 Oct 2024): in 1956, local Hibakusha associations and victims of Pacific nuclear tests formed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations, shortened to Nihon Hidankyo.
Consider the following statements about the Nobel Peace Prize 2024: 1. It was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. 2. The Committee described the international norm against using nuclear weapons as 'the nuclear taboo'. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: C — Both 1 and 2
Both statements are correct. The press release is dated Oslo, 11 October 2024, from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and says the norm stigmatising nuclear weapon use has become known as 'the nuclear taboo'.