NOBLE PRIZE FOR ANTI-NUCLEAR CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION,ICAN.

ICAN has won an award for their effort in trying to make the world nuclear weapon free.

In Oslo, the 2017 Nobel prize was awarded to The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) for their decade-long campaign to rid the world of atomic bomb.

Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Nobel Committee, announced on Friday that the Geneva-based organisation ICAN was awarded “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 on such weapons”

After the pressure from ICAN in july, UN treaty designed to ban and eventually eliminate all nuclear weapon was backed by 122 nations. But it was not accepted by none of the nine nuclear powers in the world including the UK and the US.

ICAN is ten years old, it consists of a coalition of hundreds of non-government organisations (NGOs) and it is based in Geneva in Switzerland. At the ceremony in December, The group will receive a Gold medal, a diploma and  nine million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million, £846,000).

According to the head of the ICAN  group, he criticise  Donald Trump for ramping up a nuclear standoff and said the US president has a track record of “not listening to expertise”.