Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organisation. She accepted the prize at a ceremony in Oslo at which she gave a prescient speech about the danger of nuclear weapons. She said that the the deaths of millions may be one […]

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) will receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, ICAN has been the leading civil society actor in the effort to achieve a prohibition of nuclear weapons under international law.  The Nobel Committee reiterated that “the next steps towards attaining a world free of nuclear weapons must […]