♦ The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo on 11 October 2024. It is a Japanese organisation representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It got this award “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.”

♦ The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 was awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi.