International Campaign to Eliminate the Nobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Weapons 2017

The owner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is the International Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in an effort to reach a treaty to ban the weapon.

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ICAN is an alliance of 468 partner organizations in 101 countries. The group began its implementation in 2007 with the aim of promoting compliance and full implementation of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

International Campaign to Eliminate the Nobel Peace Prize for Nuclear Weapons 2017 Picture 1
ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: Wikimedia)

According to Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee " in the past year, ICAN has been working hard to attract attention to the humanitarian consequences of using nuclear weapons and creating the foundation to achieve a union prohibit this weapon ".

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is expected to promote the elimination of 15,000 existing nuclear weapons in the world, amid the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the great powers at risk of destruction and nuclear tensions between The US and North Korea rise.

Reiss-Anderson stressed that the world is now at a higher risk of using nuclear weapons than it has been for a long time.

In July, the United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty was approved by 122 countries but the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France, which owned many nuclear weapons, did not participate in negotiations.

With efforts to end a decade-long civil war in Colombia, the country's President Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2015, this award was awarded to the intermediate group of the Tunisian National Dialogue Dialogue for its contributions to the democratic transition in Tunisia.

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize belonged to two rights activists for women and children, Malala Yousafzai, from Pakistan, and Kailash Satyarthi, from India.