ICAN  NGO gets Nobel Peace Prize 2017
ICAN NGO gets Nobel Peace Prize 2017
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ICAN is an alliance of non-governmental organizations from around 100 different countries around the globe.

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been honored to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. ICAN is an alliance of non-governmental organizations from around 100 different countries around the globe.

ICAN- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons  has been the leading civil society actor in the effort to achieve a prevention from nuclear weapons under international law, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in Oslo on October 6.  The Nobel Committee gave emphasis to that “the next steps towards attaining a world free of nuclear weapons must grip the nuclear-armed states”.

The committee said the 2017 Peace Prize calls upon nuclear-armed states to kick off negotiations to gradual abolition of the world’s 15,000 nuclear weapons adding that ICAN has in the past year given the rigorous efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons a new direction and new vitality.

The Norwegian team that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner sorted through more than 300 nominations for the 2017 award, which distinguishes both accomplishments and intentions.

The prize declaration in the Norwegian capital Oslo ends a week in which Nobel laureates have been named in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.

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