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ICAN receives Nobel Peace Prize (The Hindu)
Context
The leader of the group that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize urged nuclear nations to adopt a United Nations treaty banning atomic weapons in order to prevent “the end of us”
ICAN
- ICAN is a coalition of 468 grassroots non-governmental groups that campaigned for a U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted by 122 nations in July
- The treaty is not signed by – and would not apply to – any of the states that already have nuclear arms
- Beatrice Fihn, ICAN’s Executive Director, urged them to sign the agreement.
Fact
Ms. Fihn delivered the Nobel lecture together with Setsuko Thurlow, an 85-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and now an ICAN campaigner
Protest by Developed nations
The United States, Britain and France sent second-rank diplomats to the Nobel ceremony, which Ms. Fihn earlier told Reuters was “some kind of protest”.
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