Anti-nuclear weapon campaigner receives 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize at an awarding ceremony on Sunday, for its efforts to give new momentum to the process of abolishing nuclear weapons.

At the ceremony held at the Oslo City Hall, ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn, and Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, received a medal and a diploma of the award.

"ICAN is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons," said Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, at the ceremony.