Nobel peace prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins award live

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been awarded the 2107 Nobel Peace prize.

The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, said the award had been made in recognition of the group’s work “to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s choice amounts to a reprimand to the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers, all of whom boycotted the negotiations for the treaty – reached in July at the United Nations – and described the treaty as dangerous.

The treaty was endorsed by 122 countries at the UN headquarters in New York after months of talks an in the face of strong opposition from the nuclear-armed states and their allies.




Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/oct/06/nobel-peace-prize-2017-winner-live

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See also, of course, Trump dicking around with Iran and North Korea.

Hah, a tweet from ICAN just yesterday:

Link to tweet

[mnhtnbb]

1. My husband will be thrilled to hear this. He went with his anti-nuclear group, PSR,

Physicians for Social Responsibility, to lobby members of the United Nations about this a year ago. He is going
in November to DC with the group to lobby members of Congress.

http://www.psr.org/

[Fritz Walter]

2. Remind me again: who won the Nobel Peace Prize eight years ago?

It was President Barack Obama,

"...for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/

I wonder why the Mangled-Apricot Hellbeast didn't win it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

3. Good choice!