A Japanese organization of atomic bombing survivors wins the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5148728
The organization is called 日本原水爆被害者団体協議会 (Nihon gensuibaku higaisha dantai kyōgi-kai, Japan Confederation of A-bomb Victims Organizations). 日本被団協 (Nihon Hidankyō) for short. Japanese loves to abbreviate. (原水爆--gensuibaku) means "nuclear weapon.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Hidankyo
This organization was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize "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".
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